gunner

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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. 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 See All Example Sentences for gunner
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Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • There are guns, horses, ghosts, a primal struggle for survival in hostile terrain, family feuds and a steadily intensifying sense of mortal threat, as Old Porch’s ambition and psychopathy escalate the drama.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Marty works his connections to learn that Frank won’t be charged for Arthur’s murder — the official verdict is that accidents happen when confused old men own guns.
    Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Harrison, a passionate, if middling, fisherman who would later publish Legends of the Fall; Brautigan, the author of the celebrated 1967 novella Trout Fishing in America; and Guy de la Valdène, a French writer, sportsman, and Norman count.
    Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic, 30 Oct. 2025
  • There’s two other, much briefer windows of hunting dates to know, specifically for young sportsmen.
    Austin Hornbostel, Nashville Tennessean, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • The gunman was hiding in the front seat.
    Naaman Zhou, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • The movie saw Fraser as treasure hunter who travels to Egypt in the 1920s with a spunky librarian, played by Weisz, only to accidentally awaken a supernaturally powerful high priest.
    Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 4 Nov. 2025
  • The blockbuster — which follows a treasure hunter who accidentally awakens a cursed Egyptian priest with supernatural powers — also cemented Fraser as a bankable action hero.
    Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 4 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Those services can include playing taps and providing riflemen.
    Jordan Rusche, Twin Cities, 6 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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 8 Nov. 2025.

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