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Recent Examples of submachine gun
Rock’s talent includes shooting down German fighter planes with a single submachine gun and tossing grenades with great accuracy.
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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
Police also found 89 firearms, including handguns, submachine guns and AR-15-style rifles, as well as small explosive devices, large quantities of ammunition, silencers, high-capacity magazines, body armor and $500,000 in Canadian, equivalent to roughly $360,000 in US dollars.
—Max Hauptman, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2024
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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
Police also found 89 firearms, including handguns, submachine guns and AR-15-style rifles, as well as small explosive devices, large quantities of ammunition, silencers, high-capacity magazines, body armor and $500,000 in Canadian, equivalent to roughly $360,000 in US dollars.
—Max Hauptman, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for submachine gun
Noun
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The charges were trafficking in firearms, possession of a machine gun and possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking crime.—
Ryan Oehrli
March 13,
Charlotte Observer,
13 Mar. 2026
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Players can acquire four melee weapons — a katana, a spear, knuckles and a heavy sword — and four firearms — a pistol, a machine gun, a shotgun and a rocket launcher.—
Gieson Cacho,
Mercury News,
10 Mar. 2026
Noun
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One casing is a 9mm caliber, likely a pistol, or a machine pistol or a submachine gun, Weir said.—
Mohammad Al Sawalhi,
CNN,
26 June 2024
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Prosecutors said police found two weapons in the getaway car when the men were detained on a highway about 50 kilometers (30 miles) outside Amsterdam, a Heckler and Koch machine pistol and, in a Louis Vuitton bag, a blank-firing pistol that had been modified to take 9-millimeter rounds.—
MIKE CORDER,
ajc,
18 Oct. 2021
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In Weapons, the father of one of the young victims has a nightmare of a giant assault rifle hovering in the sky.—
Shirley Li,
The Atlantic,
12 Mar. 2026
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During the arrest, police searched the vehicle and found the assault rifle and seven casings.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
10 Mar. 2026
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Gunfire disrupts the silence as Raya emerges through smoke, armed with a tommy gun.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
8 Jan. 2026
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After speeches by longtime colleagues (the F.B.I. director, Christopher Wray, presented him with a replica tommy gun), Garland spoke.—
Fabio Bertoni,
The New Yorker,
17 Jan. 2025
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Higgins was booked for discharging a firearm at an inhabited dwelling, assault with a firearm, manufacturing or assembling an unregistered firearm, and manufacturing or causing to be manufactured an assault weapon.—
Julie Sharp,
CBS News,
10 Mar. 2026
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An assault weapons ban likely would have passed too, but then-Attorney General Ashley Moody coaxed the Florida Supreme Court to keep it off the ballot.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
10 Feb. 2026
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“Submachine gun.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/submachine%20gun. Accessed 21 Mar. 2026.
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