REPEATER Synonyms: 84 Similar and Opposite Words

repeater

noun

Definition of repeater

as in offender

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Recent Examples of repeater When Greisler showed off Armin Strom’s new $505,000 minute repeater—the first to combine a resonance movement—collector Terri Hubert of Seal Beach took notice. — Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 17 June 2026 The repeater is there to boost the signal. — John Burek, PC Magazine, 13 June 2026 In a sea of important tourbillons at Watches and Wonders this year, minute repeaters and striking watches made a musical statement of their own. — Carol Besler, Forbes.com, 23 May 2026 So what’s the decision three months later regarding that repeater tax, now that flexibility has been achieved? — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 8 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for repeater

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Noun

Hansen’s sentence was first reduced to 25 years to life, and the state later created a pathway to earlier parole for many youthful offenders serving life sentences.

— Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Aug. 2026
From names like ChatGPT and Gemini to Meta AI, Perplexity, and even Grok, the report identifies which chatbots are the most privacy-friendly and transparent in their practices and which are the worst offenders.

— Alan Henry, PC Magazine, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of offender

Noun

Boxing is fun especially when the boxer in question is beating up criminals in East London.

— Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2026
Working together to track these flows would reduce the chance that international criminals can extend their reach beyond any single jurisdiction.

— Alvin Camba, Foreign Affairs, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of criminal

Noun

Note that Denise is the parent who arms herself with a rifle and first shoots a dinosaur while Greg ambles around with a baseball bat.

— Peter Tonguette, The Washington Examiner, 22 Aug. 2026
Raman effortlessly turned the mayor’s rhetorical traps around like Bugs Bunny twisting Elmer Fudd’s rifle right in his face.

— Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of rifle

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Stevenson was previously convicted in Miami-Dade County in July for possession of a short-barrel shotgun, rifle or machine gun.

— Bri Buckley, CBS News, 17 Aug. 2026
Federal agents raided a Miami Gardens home this week and found a machine gun-making factory, along with homemade, automatic weapons and devices used to switch semiautomatic weapons to fully-automatic firearms, according to a criminal complaint.

— David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of machine gun

Noun

Cox, working like a shoestring Peckinpah, sets up Strindler against the crooks who run the border town — the corrupt mayor and sheriff and a wealthy rancher.

— Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 15 Aug. 2026
Even the buildings themselves — a trio of vast, anonymous boxes tucked into the crook of two freeways — were plagued with problems.

— Jesse Coburn, ProPublica, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of crook

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The quarterback has worked diligently to change his shotgun stance, now putting his left foot in front of his right, and has sped up his decision making to get the ball to playmakers in space.

— Joaquin Ruiz, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2026
According to court records, Silvia purchased a shotgun that year and then went to Woodard's Orlando-area home, where his wife had been living since their separation two months earlier.

— CBS News, CBS News, 18 Aug. 2026

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