speargun

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Recent Examples of speargun When Ray attacks Julie, Ava shoots him through the back with his speargun, killing him. Megan McCluskey, Time, 18 July 2025 That afternoon, Mariottini went diving, hunting for amberjacks and sea bream with his speargun. Elena Clavarino, Air Mail, 12 July 2025 Because the fish can both hear noise and feel vibrations, divers must take care not to, say, bump their speargun on the bottom while listening for croaks. Mike Raabe, Outdoor Life, 2 July 2025 This means that Hara had to catch the fish in 60-degree water with all her gear — a 10-pound weight belt, snorkel, fins and 2-pound EduSub speargun. Kaila Yu, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2022 As in the story, Domino shoots Largo with a speargun. John Mariani, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022 Biannual speargun fishing competitions held at the San Marcos River, as well as almost weekly diving expeditions by the Texas A&M research team, are working to pluck the pesky Plecos out of the river each year by the thousands. Annie Blanks, San Antonio Express-News, 7 Mar. 2022 The hope is that a robust consumer market will incentivize lionfish hunting, and that humans with spearguns will become the predators that invasive lionfish need. IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for speargun
Noun
  • Leatherwood kicked in the bedroom door armed with what police say was an AR-15-style rifle.
    David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Now convinced that Lo was right all along, Richard’s assistant runs to the lodge’s hunting shed to get a rifle.
    Keith Langston, PEOPLE, 11 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • When Herbert took the shotgun snap and dropped back, his height improved his ability to feel the pressure to his right yet also gauge developments upfield.
    Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2025
  • The blast, in the back of a building used for shotgun ammunition, caused severe damage.
    Isabel Rosales, CNN Money, 11 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The driver’s side passenger then fires shots from a pistol at Bass-Moody, fatally striking her in the neck, according to police.
    Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 15 Oct. 2025
  • The devices can enable pistols to fire at rates of up to 1,200 rounds per minute, according to gun control advocacy group Everytown for Gun Safety.
    Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 15 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Lastly, players have ranged weapons such as the fast firing bow called the Hankyu, long ranged Yumi, bombs and Tangeshima, or musket.
    Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 26 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Trump would also stop treating the Europeans as enemies with his blunderbuss tariffs.
    Trudy Rubin, Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The flintlock coughed a lot of smoke, but Zutterman heard the 270-grain roundball smack the buck.
    Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 2 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • Deputies responded to the scene and found a black and purple 9mm handgun inside a large dumpster near the school parking lot.
    David Ferrara, Cincinnati Enquirer, 9 Oct. 2025
  • According to police, a physical fight then ensued when Hampton took out a handgun and allegedly shot Simpson three times.
    Adam Sabes, FOXNews.com, 9 Oct. 2025

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“Speargun.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/speargun. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.

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