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Recent Examples of gunner
And, for Michael Carter, a Marine veteran who served at Twentynine Palms and Camp Pendleton between 2004 and 2013 and deployed as a machine gunner three times, getting the wall to Orange was deeply personal.
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Erika I. Ritchie, Oc Register, 3 Oct. 2025
Campbell served as a gunner and fill-in wide receiver before sustaining a hamstring injury in the game.
—Mike Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 30 Sep. 2025
Minor’s primary role could come on special teams, where the Patriots are still trying to identify a gunner to play opposite Brenden Schooler on the punt team.
—Doug Kyed, Boston Herald, 13 Sep. 2025
Some French gunner, now long dead, had lifted it from a crate, shoved it into the breech of a cannon and fired it during that horrible year of 1916.
—Michael Jerome Plunkett
september 5, Literary Hub, 5 Sep. 2025
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Erika I. Ritchie, Oc Register, 3 Oct. 2025
Campbell served as a gunner and fill-in wide receiver before sustaining a hamstring injury in the game.
—Mike Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 30 Sep. 2025
Minor’s primary role could come on special teams, where the Patriots are still trying to identify a gunner to play opposite Brenden Schooler on the punt team.
—Doug Kyed, Boston Herald, 13 Sep. 2025
Some French gunner, now long dead, had lifted it from a crate, shoved it into the breech of a cannon and fired it during that horrible year of 1916.
—Michael Jerome Plunkett
september 5, Literary Hub, 5 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gunner
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But French leaders nonetheless discouraged longbow use in the following years because these weapons require constant practice, and French leaders worried that a population full of skilled archers would threaten their hold on power.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
21 Oct. 2025
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Standing tall in individual cases are a kneeling archer, a standing archer, an armored warrior, a high-ranking officer and a young attendant.—
Penny E Schwartz,
Oc Register,
20 Sep. 2025
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Police added that Lattimore was arrested for not telling the officer there was a gun inside the vehicle when asked.—
Scott Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
9 Jan. 2026
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Ross, who was one of several federal agents involved in the arrest, initially drew his service weapon, but holstered the gun after Muñoz-Guatemala stopped his car and raised his hands, according to the affidavit.—
Allison Gordon,
CNN Money,
9 Jan. 2026
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Her father was the entrepreneur and sportsman Harry Payne Whitney; her mother was a Vanderbilt who had a career as a sculptor, winning large public commissions in the United States and Europe.—
Fiona Donovan,
Vanity Fair,
30 Dec. 2025
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Published in 1939, Rogue Male follows an unnamed English sportsman who attempts to assassinate a European dictator, strongly implied to be Adolf Hitler.—
Jake Kanter,
Deadline,
27 Nov. 2025
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There is no evidence of an attacker at the University of Virginia after a gunman was reported near a library on campus, according to an emergency alert from campus police.—
N'dea Yancey-Bragg,
USA Today,
3 Nov. 2025
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The gunman was hiding in the front seat.—
Naaman Zhou,
New Yorker,
3 Nov. 2025
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The big animals were still swimming as night fell and the hunters returned home.—
Bill Kearney,
Sun Sentinel,
7 Jan. 2026
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These toxins are sourced from the gifbol — a plant that local hunters continue to use today for its potent lethal properties.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
7 Jan. 2026
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Dave Brubeck, already an accomplished jazz pianist, serving in a military band at a Riverside, California, base, was reassigned, trained, then shipped overseas as a replacement infantry rifleman.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
14 Oct. 2025
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Those services can include playing taps and providing riflemen.—
Jordan Rusche,
Twin Cities,
6 Oct. 2025
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Ephesus also includes the remains of the Temple of Artemis (or Diana) a huntress and goddess of fertility.—
Michael Goldstein,
Forbes.com,
7 June 2025
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Located in a panoramic point of Villa d’Este, the Grotto of Diana, the goddess huntress symbolizing virtue, is a cruciform plan nymphaeum located in the Cardinal’s Walk and was built between 1570 and 1572 by Paolo Calandrino.—
Sandra Salibian,
Footwear News,
16 Apr. 2025
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“Gunner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gunner. Accessed 9 Jan. 2026.
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