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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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There are plenty of coyotes, wolves and horses, but these Arizona team mascot names hit a bit different.—
Lorenzino Estrada,
AZCentral.com,
13 Aug. 2025
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In recent years, researchers have created machines imitating the look and movement of bats, coyotes, falcons, rats, guppies, bees, and even cockroaches.—
Mack DeGeurin,
Popular Science,
13 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Since the ability to smuggle in narcotics and humans by simply walking over the border has been eliminated, smugglers are now forced to think of another way to enter our nation.—
Mike Garcia,
Oc Register,
11 Aug. 2025
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The Mossad had developed contacts with smugglers — and often with the government intelligence agencies — in all seven nations.—
Yossi Melman,
ProPublica,
7 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Rather than being punished, the research shows that, surprisingly, some bootleggers are praised and offered more opportunities to perform live gigs than DJs who produce official remixes or original music.—
London School of Economics,
Forbes.com,
13 May 2025
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Her mother’s parents, the Pattis (her first name is her mother’s maiden name), were immigrant bootleggers; their sewing room had removable floorboards to hide whiskey.—
Michael Schulman,
New Yorker,
26 May 2025
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“Gunrunner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gunrunner. Accessed 26 Aug. 2025.
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