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Recent Examples of machine gun
Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 15 June 2025
Standing in the sea of people, Private Jonathan Cole wore a Gulf War-era camouflage uniform and held a model machine gun.
—Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA Today, 14 June 2025
San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2023
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Noun
Russian troops have advanced in some areas in eastern and northern Ukraine in recent months but have not managed to break through or take over a major city.
‘Impossible to shoot them down’
Yuriy Chumak spends many of his nights perched on Kyiv’s rooftops, machine gun in hand.
—Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 15 June 2025
Standing in the sea of people, Private Jonathan Cole wore a Gulf War-era camouflage uniform and held a model machine gun.
—Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA Today, 14 June 2025
Verb
As someone who grew up in the Dodgers’ family and now can’t stand the sight of them, who wants to beat them as Buddy Rich might machine-gun his snare drum.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for machine gun
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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
Noun
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Rock’s talent includes shooting down German fighter planes with a single submachine gun and tossing grenades with great accuracy.—
Justin Kroll,
Deadline,
17 Mar. 2025
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Budweiser factories received bomb threats, customers boycotted the beer, and MAGA musician Kid Rock filmed himself shooting up 12-packs with a submachine gun, tears in his eyes.—
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
26 Feb. 2025
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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
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Gauging from the trailer, this grisly period piece appears to be set in the South with Jordan starring in a dual role as a pair of twins, at least one of whom gets to spray bullets with a retro tommy gun.—
Meredith Blake,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Jan. 2025
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The suit seeks to strike parts of the ordinance that ban anyone under 21 from having a handgun or ammunition and a prohibition on anyone between the ages of 18 and 20 from possessing a semiautomatic assault rifle with certain exceptions.—
Kacen Bayless,
Kansas City Star,
27 June 2025
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Officers with assault rifles and faces covered pulled those arrested into vans and trucks.—
Brittny Mejia,
Los Angeles Times,
20 June 2025
Verb
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In September 2024, the same month as the pager attack and assassination of Hezbollah’s leader, Israel launched the most extensive campaign of airstrikes in the air force’s history hitherto, destroying much of Hezbollah’s strategic surface-to-surface missile stockpiles.—
Paul Iddon,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025
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As rumors swirl and her life collapses, Eva faces a choice: protect herself or expose Amir’s secret and risk destroying him.—
Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
30 June 2025
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That’s the number of states, including Maryland, that have assault weapons bans in place, as compiled by pro-gun control group Everytown for Gun Safety: California, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Washington.—
Alison Durkee,
Forbes.com,
2 June 2025
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Gun control advocates have been pushing for an assault weapons ban in Rhode Island for more than a decade.—
Kimberlee Kruesi,
Los Angeles Times,
21 June 2025
Verb
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In that incident, a rooftop gunman fired at Trump from roughly 150 yards away, grazing his right ear and killing one attendee, Corey Comperatore, before Secret Service agents shot the attacker dead.—
Jasmine Baehr,
FOXNews.com,
12 July 2025
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The legislation didn’t kill Biden-era tax credits for manufacturers, as some had feared.—
Aarian Marshall,
Wired News,
11 July 2025
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At the scene of the apparent assassination attempt, officials found the rifle, a black backpack and a bag containing ceramic tile, and a GoPro camera.—
Kinsey Crowley,
USA Today,
12 July 2025
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Six days later, Blanchard was assaulted outside a party on Westwood Northern Boulevard and went inside to get a rifle, prosecutors said.—
Cameron Knight,
The Enquirer,
11 July 2025
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“Machine gun.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/machine%20gun. Accessed 16 Jul. 2025.
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