gunrunner

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Recent Examples of gunrunner Love Lies Bleeding Set in 1989 New Mexico, Rose Glass' 2024 neo-noir romantic thriller stars Kristen Stewart as Lou, a withdrawn gym manager raised by a local crime lord and gunrunner. Charlotte Walsh, People.com, 1 Sep. 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 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 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gunrunner
Noun
  • An artist and photographer, Alolkoy is experienced with wildlife photography, documenting local birds, bobcats and coyote.
    Rey Covarrubias Jr, AZCentral.com, 1 Oct. 2025
  • While the obvious draw to the film is campy, gory coyote action, the couple is effusive about each other’s ability to pull off heavier moments during the family’s arc.
    William Earl, Variety, 22 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • First by shadowing a refugee smuggler and some refugees preparing to trek through the treacherous Darién Gap rainforest.
    Randy Myers, Mercury News, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The family travelled north from Central America for weeks, crossing rivers by night and riding concealed in smugglers’ trucks.
    Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Groucho Marx stars as the new president of Huxley College, who attempts to sign on two pro players to help beat rival Darwin University but ends up getting a pair of bootleggers instead.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Kentucky's vast wilderness and mountainous regions served as hideaways for bootleggers, Rein said, while the government used paid informants to sniff them out.
    Maggie Menderski, Louisville Courier Journal, 16 Sep. 2025

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

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