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Recent Examples of gunrunner
Driving Pa Beck back to his mansion, Reacher takes an odd swerve into family counselor mode, telling the gunrunner that his son deserves to know that the reason he’s been made to suffer these last five years is because, welp, his old man is a gunrunner.
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Chris Klimek, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2025
Driving Pa Beck back to his mansion, Reacher takes an odd swerve into family counselor mode, telling the gunrunner that his son deserves to know that the reason he’s been made to suffer these last five years is because, welp, his old man is a gunrunner.
—Chris Klimek, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2025
Cartels and guerrillas in South America are similarly dependent on border-crossing drug smugglers and gunrunners for the tools of their trade.
—Paul J. Angelo, Foreign Affairs, 21 Apr. 2020
Her father’s work as a gunrunner and pilot led the British authorities to throw him in jail, weeks after Ms. Mehta was born.
—Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2023
There are brash foreign fighters and humble food drivers and furtive gunrunners and ancient babushkas knitting camouflage ghillie suits in community gyms.
—Peter Rubin, Longreads, 23 Feb. 2023
The 53-year-old Bout, a gunrunner, was the inspiration behind Nicholas Cage’s character in the 2005 film ‘‘Lord of War’’ and was on the radar of Western intelligence agencies for years before a 2008 Drug Enforcement Administration operation led to his capture.
—Isabelle Khurshudyan, BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2020
That deal was engineered by an Iranian-American gunrunner with ties to the CIA who was not named in the U.S. court documents.
—Jon Gambrell, Anchorage Daily News, 4 June 2020
Alan O'Neill, known for playing Irish gunrunner Hugh on FX's Sons of Anarchy, died Wednesday in Los Angeles.
—Bill Keveney, USA TODAY, 7 June 2018
Chris Klimek, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2025
Driving Pa Beck back to his mansion, Reacher takes an odd swerve into family counselor mode, telling the gunrunner that his son deserves to know that the reason he’s been made to suffer these last five years is because, welp, his old man is a gunrunner.
—Chris Klimek, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2025
Cartels and guerrillas in South America are similarly dependent on border-crossing drug smugglers and gunrunners for the tools of their trade.
—Paul J. Angelo, Foreign Affairs, 21 Apr. 2020
Her father’s work as a gunrunner and pilot led the British authorities to throw him in jail, weeks after Ms. Mehta was born.
—Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2023
There are brash foreign fighters and humble food drivers and furtive gunrunners and ancient babushkas knitting camouflage ghillie suits in community gyms.
—Peter Rubin, Longreads, 23 Feb. 2023
The 53-year-old Bout, a gunrunner, was the inspiration behind Nicholas Cage’s character in the 2005 film ‘‘Lord of War’’ and was on the radar of Western intelligence agencies for years before a 2008 Drug Enforcement Administration operation led to his capture.
—Isabelle Khurshudyan, BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2020
That deal was engineered by an Iranian-American gunrunner with ties to the CIA who was not named in the U.S. court documents.
—Jon Gambrell, Anchorage Daily News, 4 June 2020
Alan O'Neill, known for playing Irish gunrunner Hugh on FX's Sons of Anarchy, died Wednesday in Los Angeles.
—Bill Keveney, USA TODAY, 7 June 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gunrunner
Noun
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Their statements assume that the new rules would bar killing of coyotes without evidence of property or agricultural damage.—
Bay Area News Group,
Mercury News,
13 May 2025
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Other scavengers — pumas, ocelots, caiman, and coyotes — were rarely spotted.—
Jack Knudson,
Discover Magazine,
9 May 2025
Noun
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Dog shampoo bottles are among the many creative ways smugglers have tried to sneak meth in and out of the country.—
Kaitlyn Huamani,
Los Angeles Times,
1 May 2025
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As Thai Customs also tightened border checks, that move led to more than 800 cannabis smugglers being caught between October 2024 and March 2025.—
Dario Sabaghi,
Forbes.com,
28 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The iron law explains why bootleggers smuggled whiskey instead of beer or wine during alcohol prohibition.—
John C. Goodman,
Forbes.com,
12 May 2025
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His death reportedly was the result of a dispute with a bootlegger.—
Kori Rumore,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Mar. 2025
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“Gunrunner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gunrunner. Accessed 23 May. 2025.
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