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Recent Examples of machine gun
Jack O'Connor, Chicago Tribune, 8 Apr. 2026
That, and a large machine gun resting on the crisp white tablecloth, helped their spot on the show floor stand out somewhat in the sea of sellers trying to draw curious eyes.
—Idaho Statesman, 7 Apr. 2026
Joanna Warsza, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
In a startling image, a pregnant Perfidia fires off rounds with a machine-gun butt pressed against her swollen belly.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
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Noun
The city’s ongoing lawsuit points to the proliferation of machine gun conversion devices used on semiautomatic pistols.
—Jack O'Connor, Chicago Tribune, 8 Apr. 2026
That, and a large machine gun resting on the crisp white tablecloth, helped their spot on the show floor stand out somewhat in the sea of sellers trying to draw curious eyes.
—Idaho Statesman, 7 Apr. 2026
Verb
The pamphlet offered instructions for how to acoustically recognize an incoming threat and how to determine whether the source is machine-gun fire, artillery fire, rocket launchers, or an air raid.
—Joanna Warsza, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
In a startling image, a pregnant Perfidia fires off rounds with a machine-gun butt pressed against her swollen belly.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for machine gun
Noun
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One casing is a 9mm caliber, likely a pistol, or a machine pistol or a submachine gun, Weir said.—
Mohammad Al Sawalhi,
CNN,
26 June 2024
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Prosecutors said police found two weapons in the getaway car when the men were detained on a highway about 50 kilometers (30 miles) outside Amsterdam, a Heckler and Koch machine pistol and, in a Louis Vuitton bag, a blank-firing pistol that had been modified to take 9-millimeter rounds.—
MIKE CORDER,
ajc,
18 Oct. 2021
Verb
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His tommy-gun dialogue, much of it laced with withering invective and punctuated with profanity, started a shift in the language of both theater and movies in this country.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Apr. 2025
Noun
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On the roof, a three-year-old boy from Chile plays with a toy submachine gun, pointing it at anyone who comes within range.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
27 Feb. 2026
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Police learned Pyles owns a handgun and a submachine gun, according to charging documents.—
Jose R. Gonzalez,
AZCentral.com,
20 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Westman had decorated the assault rifle and shotgun with hate speech in ways that aligned with the dark underbelly of alt-right meme culture that regularly disparages people of color, Jewish people, the LGBTQ+, and people with disabilities.—
Natalie Eilbert,
jsonline.com,
29 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Gunfire disrupts the silence as Raya emerges through smoke, armed with a tommy gun.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
8 Jan. 2026
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After speeches by longtime colleagues (the F.B.I. director, Christopher Wray, presented him with a replica tommy gun), Garland spoke.—
Fabio Bertoni,
The New Yorker,
17 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Samuel is too comfortable with his father’s assault rifle, pantomiming intimidation into the mirror like a 13-year-old Travis Bickle.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
24 Apr. 2026
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The person in the front appears to be pointing an assault rifle.—
Joe Brandt,
CBS News,
21 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Thankfully, the Dark Sky movement is growing as more people become aware of the issue and learn about simple and cost-effective ways that can be embraced to reverse the course of destroying our night skies.—
Ernie Cowan,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Apr. 2026
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Radioactive clouds spread, causing panic as far away as Germany and Britain; millions of litres of milk were dumped; livestock was destroyed or banned from sale.—
The Week UK,
TheWeek,
26 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Analysis shows that nearly 20% of mass killings are committed with weapons other than firearms Semiautomatic handguns are far more common in mass killings than guns that are typically characterized as assault weapons, such as the AR-15.—
USA Today,
USA Today,
20 Apr. 2026
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Davis faces state felony charges of possessing an assault weapon, being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition and having a firearm after a prior juvenile conviction.—
Rosalio Ahumada,
Sacbee.com,
16 Apr. 2026
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“Machine gun.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/machine%20gun. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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