gunrunner

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Recent Examples of gunrunner 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 By shuttling weapons to warlords in Liberia and a dictator in Zaïre, among others, Bout became the most notorious gunrunner of the past quarter century. Casey Michel, Foreign Affairs, 20 Sep. 2017 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 Before World War II, Crabb had a number of exotic jobs, including male model, gunrunner, and spy. Emma Barrett and Paul Martin, Discover Magazine, 4 Dec. 2014 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
  • That’s because the show leaned into the L.A. quirks, brining on experts on coyotes, palm trees and earthquakes.
    Michael Schneider, Variety, 30 Jan. 2025
  • Wildlife officials suspect coyotes, dogs and other wildlife died after poison was left in a popular hiking area in southern Arizona.
    Helena Wegner, Sacramento Bee, 29 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Rosa travelled north some twelve hundred miles, on foot and by bus, paying smugglers and eluding predators.
    Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
  • Migrants who elude capture walk as long as two days in the wilderness before arriving at smugglers’ vehicles.
    Eugene Garcia, Chicago Tribune, 25 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • What eliminated the bootleggers wasn’t more prohibition, but legalization, after all.
    The Editorial Board, Orange County Register, 23 Jan. 2025
  • This episode, in which Prohibition is reinstated in Springfield and Homer becomes a bootlegger known as the Beer Baron, pursued by an Elliot Ness-type crime fighter named Rex Banner, is one such episode.
    Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2024

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“Gunrunner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gunrunner. Accessed 8 Feb. 2025.

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