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a type of long gun that was used by soldiers before the invention of the rifle
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Recent Examples of musket
Audiences are immersed in the horrors of the war, which was fought eyeball to eyeball by landless men wielding muskets, unreliable rifles and terrifying bayonets.
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Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 16 Nov. 2025
Some boys with muskets, circa Ye Olde America?
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 14 Nov. 2025
There is also pretty but not always energetic imagery filmed in different referenced parts of the current American wilderness — snow gathering in fields, mist rising above mountaintops — and never-energetic shots of re-enactors loading muskets or preparing for battle.
—Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 6 Nov. 2025
Archaeologists in Scotland have excavated over 100 weapon projectiles, including cannon shot and lead musket balls from one of the country’s most famous battlefields.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 30 Oct. 2025
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Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 16 Nov. 2025
Some boys with muskets, circa Ye Olde America?
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 14 Nov. 2025
There is also pretty but not always energetic imagery filmed in different referenced parts of the current American wilderness — snow gathering in fields, mist rising above mountaintops — and never-energetic shots of re-enactors loading muskets or preparing for battle.
—Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 6 Nov. 2025
Archaeologists in Scotland have excavated over 100 weapon projectiles, including cannon shot and lead musket balls from one of the country’s most famous battlefields.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 30 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for musket
Noun
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The flintlock coughed a lot of smoke, but Zutterman heard the 270-grain roundball smack the buck.—
Bob McNally,
Outdoor Life,
2 Oct. 2025
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The flintlock pistol that Torres is given by the Yautja to fight his fellow prisoners is known by Predator fans as the Raphael Adolini 1715 pistol for an engraved plate that says just that.—
Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
13 June 2025
Noun
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Her image as an onstage bad girl was weaponized against her, with fans threatening her life at concerts, leaving at one point shotgun shells on the stage during Hole performances, referring to the manner of Cobain’s death.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
30 Jan. 2026
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More than a month after the murders, Kohberger took a cross-country drive home to Pennsylvania with his dad riding shotgun in the suspect vehicle.—
Michael Ruiz,
FOXNews.com,
29 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Guns are a part of American life, and have been since the very beginning, from the matchlock muskets arming the earliest colonies to the Colt revolvers and Winchester rifles of the Old West to the Glock handgun of today.—
Kyle Mizokami,
Popular Mechanics,
7 Mar. 2018
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First-generation matchlock rifles, tanks, and aircraft had major limitations but improved over time.—
Paul Scharre,
Foreign Affairs,
15 Feb. 2018
Noun
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With feverish speed and characteristic blunderbuss, President Donald Trump has given the federal government – and himself – unprecedented control over private economic decisions.—
Matthew Mitchell,
Twin Cities,
28 Sep. 2025
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Trump would also stop treating the Europeans as enemies with his blunderbuss tariffs.—
Trudy Rubin,
Mercury News,
15 Aug. 2025
Noun
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This tank is potentially equipped with a 130mm smoothbore gun.—
Kapil Kajal,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Researchers recently found medieval cannonballs from culverins, an early form of cannon, that were most likely used by Vlad the Impaler, during his bloody battle in 1461 with the Ottoman Turks.—
Fox News,
Fox News,
5 Aug. 2019
Noun
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Jackson was charged with a felony for simultaneous possession of drugs and a firearm and felony drug possession.—
arkansasonline.com,
arkansasonline.com,
2 Feb. 2026
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Federal agents in tactical gear, carrying firearms, moved in on the park, walking in a straight line, side by side, some on horseback, as news helicopters hovered above and nearby demonstrators jeered at them.—
Ruben Vives,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Feb. 2026
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Police also found a 9-mm Mossberg semi-automatic pistol and Remington shotgun elsewhere in the house.—
Meredith Colias-Pete,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Feb. 2026
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After obtaining a search warrant for the home, authorities recovered a pistol in the living room next to Battle’s purse and a bullet casing that matched the gun’s caliber in the hallway.—
Elissa Jorgensen,
Dallas Morning News,
3 Feb. 2026
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“Musket.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/musket. Accessed 4 Feb. 2026.
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