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Recent Examples of submachine gun
Police learned Pyles owns a handgun and a submachine gun, according to charging documents.
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Jose R. Gonzalez, AZCentral.com, 20 Aug. 2025
Rock’s talent includes shooting down German fighter planes with a single submachine gun and tossing grenades with great accuracy.
—Justin Kroll, Deadline, 17 Mar. 2025
Budweiser factories received bomb threats, customers boycotted the beer, and MAGA musician Kid Rock filmed himself shooting up 12-packs with a submachine gun, tears in his eyes.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 26 Feb. 2025
Angry protesters denounced the brand on TikTok, ultimately leading to bomb threats, a country musician banning sales of the beer on his tour and a Twitter video of Kid Rock firing at cases of Bud Light with a submachine gun.
—Maggie Lange, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2025
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Jose R. Gonzalez, AZCentral.com, 20 Aug. 2025
Rock’s talent includes shooting down German fighter planes with a single submachine gun and tossing grenades with great accuracy.
—Justin Kroll, Deadline, 17 Mar. 2025
Budweiser factories received bomb threats, customers boycotted the beer, and MAGA musician Kid Rock filmed himself shooting up 12-packs with a submachine gun, tears in his eyes.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 26 Feb. 2025
Angry protesters denounced the brand on TikTok, ultimately leading to bomb threats, a country musician banning sales of the beer on his tour and a Twitter video of Kid Rock firing at cases of Bud Light with a submachine gun.
—Maggie Lange, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for submachine gun
Noun
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Die Hard is a loud movie, booming with machine gun fire and explosions.—
Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
4 Dec. 2025
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Hegseth's social media post from Sunday shows the turtle, clad in tactical gear, standing on a helicopter and aiming a machine gun at one of several boats in the water below.—
Rachel Treisman,
NPR,
2 Dec. 2025
Noun
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About a mile and a half away from the shooting, police were seen investigating an SUV near 44th Street and Wolcott Avenue, where an AK-47-style assault rifle was lying on the ground nearby.—
Victor Jacobo,
CBS News,
27 May 2026
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There’s an encased AK-47 and a grenade in another area; in the magazine of the assault rifle, which is wrapped in $1 bills, are items humans kill for, such as cocaine, diamonds, and gold.—
Sean Gregory,
Time,
26 May 2026
Noun
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Gunfire disrupts the silence as Raya emerges through smoke, armed with a tommy gun.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
8 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Is the the editorial board now going to explicitly stop endorsing candidates for federal and state office who refuse to support an assault weapons ban?—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
29 Aug. 2025
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Deputies provided community members $100 gift cards for each handgun, rifle and shotgun that was brought in and $200 gift cards for each assault weapon, according to sheriff’s officials.—
Alex Riggins,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 Aug. 2025
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“Submachine gun.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/submachine%20gun. Accessed 18 Jun. 2026.
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