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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 muskets
The printing press, clocks, muskets — all these inventions changed humankind forever.
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Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 6 Jan. 2026
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.
—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
Here, in the middle of British New York, and before that Dutch New Amsterdam, is where muskets were fired and the empire had its very last outpost in 1783, after the war ended.
—Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 23 Oct. 2025
Some of them waged it, encamping with the armies, cooking, cleaning, and nursing, and, in a few exceptional cases, grabbing muskets themselves.
—Jane Kamensky, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2025
Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 6 Jan. 2026
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.
—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
Here, in the middle of British New York, and before that Dutch New Amsterdam, is where muskets were fired and the empire had its very last outpost in 1783, after the war ended.
—Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 23 Oct. 2025
Some of them waged it, encamping with the armies, cooking, cleaning, and nursing, and, in a few exceptional cases, grabbing muskets themselves.
—Jane Kamensky, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for muskets
Noun
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Changes announced by Senate President Bobby Joe Champion, DFL-Minneapolis, also include a ban on members of the public carrying firearms in the Senate Gallery.—
Alex Derosier,
Twin Cities,
26 Jan. 2026
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Policing experts said that when officers are trying to arrest people found to have firearms, they are taught to alert their fellow officers and then draw their own guns and order the people to drop theirs or to try to disarm them.—
Jon Schuppe,
NBC news,
26 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The indictment describes two pistols, a rifle and a shotgun found in Roberts’ possession.—
Hannah Fingerhut,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Jan. 2026
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The indictment describes two pistols, a rifle and a shotgun found in Roberts' possession.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
21 Jan. 2026
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“Muskets.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/muskets. Accessed 30 Jan. 2026.
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