Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gun (for)
Verb
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Brundage combined with sophomore defender Brooklynn Sosa multiple times throughout the match, with Sosa constantly making attacking runs down the right.—
Ishmael Johnson,
Dallas Morning News,
19 Mar. 2026 -
Doncic yelled at the crowd and ran down court shaking his head.—
Broderick Turner,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Mar. 2026
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Mojtaba Khamenei replaced his father, Ali Khamenei, as supreme leader after the ayatollah was killed at the start of the war.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
21 Mar. 2026
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The World Health Organization and Lebanese health authorities said more than 100 of those killed were children.—
Cybele Mayes-Osterman,
USA Today,
21 Mar. 2026
Verb
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The blood coursing my veins contains no French elements, save the vestige of an exquisite Bordeaux from last night’s dinner with friends in Beverly Hills, a city within a city that you’d be forgiven for assuming is the official headquarters for the Persian diaspora in America.—
Arvand Khosravi,
Vanity Fair,
11 Mar. 2026
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In season two, the trauma of her assault is still coursing through her and sending out aftershocks.—
Sam Reed,
Glamour,
6 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Huntington Beach was trailing by two runs when left-hander Christian Haupt entered the game in relief in the fourth.—
Lou Ponsi,
Oc Register,
19 Mar. 2026
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Garza entered Wednesday with the second-best net rating of all Celtics rotation players since Vucevic’s injury, trailing only Tatum.—
Zack Cox,
Boston Herald,
19 Mar. 2026
Verb
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She was being pursued viciously by the paparazzi, and here was somebody who was literally chased to death by the paparazzi.—
Jessica Radloff,
Glamour,
20 Mar. 2026
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El Concilio — the group that led the effort to rename First Street for Cesar Chavez in 1993 — voted to pursue reversing that change, asking City Council to restore the street’s original name.—
Dante Motley,
Austin American Statesman,
20 Mar. 2026
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Ackerman’s brother’s body was found in July in the area of Missouri Route 291 and Missouri Route 210 in the Sugar Creek area after a relative who could track the brother’s location using an app reported that his location had not moved for several hours.—
Nathan Pilling
March 17,
Kansas City Star,
18 Mar. 2026
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Investigators, police say, identified a vehicle that was of interest and then used their surveillance cameras to track down the vehicle.—
Jose Fabian,
CBS News,
18 Mar. 2026
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“Gun (for).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gun%20%28for%29. Accessed 24 Mar. 2026.
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