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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
Each foot soldier carried a ten-pound musket, a sixteen-inch bayonet, a tin canteen, a linen haversack, and his own blanket—a battlefield luxury, since in peacetime five men typically shared two blankets.
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/ Cbs News, CBS News, 13 June 2025
The original designs of the Central Minuteman, named Marshall, appeared as a white man carrying a musket.
—Talia McWright, Twin Cities, 8 June 2025
Later, Flinders interacted with the First Nations people again, this time giving them his shot belt that included musket balls, according to the release.
—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 14 May 2025
Musk is able to launch these bundles of satellites at a Gatling-gun pace, while his competitors operate at musket speed with rockets that must be rebuilt from scratch each time.
—Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 6 May 2025
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/ Cbs News, CBS News, 13 June 2025
The original designs of the Central Minuteman, named Marshall, appeared as a white man carrying a musket.
—Talia McWright, Twin Cities, 8 June 2025
Later, Flinders interacted with the First Nations people again, this time giving them his shot belt that included musket balls, according to the release.
—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 14 May 2025
Musk is able to launch these bundles of satellites at a Gatling-gun pace, while his competitors operate at musket speed with rockets that must be rebuilt from scratch each time.
—Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 6 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for musket
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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
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Although a gunshot from a flintlock pistol lasts only an eye blink, the sound is composed of numerous elements: the squeeze of the trigger, the strike of the firing mechanism against the flint, the ignition of the powder, the slug’s passage through the barrel, the report, the impact.—
Alexis Soloski,
New York Times,
3 Jan. 2025
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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
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This is because common techniques rely on a decades-old sequencing technology called shotgun metagenomics, that frequently misses bacterial populations from complex samples.—
Steven Savage,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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Anyone riding shotgun will ask for seconds, and by day’s end, the 765’s Pirelli P-Zeros have left a solid strip of 11s.—
Sean Evans,
Robb Report,
9 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
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And with the Trump administration taking a blunderbuss to anything that remotely resembles DEI, the mood across the entertainment industries is generally apprehensive.—
Zak Cheney-Rice,
Vulture,
2 June 2025
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This tank is potentially equipped with a 130mm smoothbore gun.—
Kapil Kajal,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Sep. 2025
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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
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Lanez was convicted in 2022 of felony assault with a semiautomatic firearm and sentenced in August 2023 to 10 years in prison.—
Preezy Brown,
VIBE.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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The new rule and the announcement that USCIS officers can carry firearms are the most recent steps to transform the agency into a different entity, away from one founded to adjudicate benefit applications and provide services to the public.—
Stuart Anderson,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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As the boys ran away down the street, the man raised the pistol again and fired at them, striking Guzman in the back.—
Jeanine Santucci,
USA Today,
4 Sep. 2025
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Then almost a month later, on Wednesday, a search warrant was served at the residence, with officials recovering a stun gun, replica pistol, drugs and drug paraphernalia, the district attorney's office said.—
Megan Forrester,
ABC News,
4 Sep. 2025
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“Musket.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/musket. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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