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Recent Examples of gunnerNetherlands Ministry of Defense Last year, Norway's Princess Ingrid Alexandria finished 15-months of service as a gunner in an engineering battalion.—Frank Andrews, CBS News, 5 Feb. 2026 Imagine how Trump’s words affected the mother of Danish machine-gunner Sophia Bruun, killed in action in 2010 at the age of 22, who fought alongside British army troops in the battlefront province of Helmand.—Trudy Rubin, Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2026 Other cast includes Perah Bar Miniely (False Flag) and first-timer Bar Assraf who served as a tank-gunner in the actual unit the film is inspired by and who fought on October 7th.—Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 26 Jan. 2026 Prince Harry — who did two tours of duty in Afghanistan as an Army Air Corps co-pilot gunner — also responded to Trump, while not referring to the president by name.—Chris Willman, Variety, 24 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for gunner
Acquiring sports teams and land For much of his life a partying roustabout who wooed beautiful women with a roguish charm, the lean, mustachioed sportsman married three times.
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David Bauder,
Chicago Tribune,
6 May 2026
Ted Turner was a sportsman of all types, a world champion in sailing and a World Series-winning owner in baseball.
One of the two men wounded in the shooting on Memorial Drive in Cambridge, Massachusetts drove himself to the hospital after the gunman opened fired on Monday.
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Matt Schooley,
CBS News,
13 May 2026
The gunman claimed to have acted on behalf of the Maniac Murder Cult, according to court documents.
When The Worm’s Cannon Fires Velvet worms are nocturnal hunters that move through leaf litter, rotting logs and other cluttered, low-light environments.
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Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
9 May 2026
Every now and then, the hunter’s headphones would ping, registering a metallic hit below ground; though the vast majority of those signals were inconsequential, identifying only bits of scrap iron or old lead bullets.
Idaho’s prison system has nearly completed execution chamber upgrades to carry out the death penalty by firing squad as the state’s lead method and will have a team of riflemen ready to go by the time a state law takes effect this summer.
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Kevin Fixler
April 29,
Idaho Statesman,
29 Apr. 2026