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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tommy-gunned
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However, all three have been destroyed in separate accidents, the latest of which occurred on March 17, 2025, when a Heron Mk1 crashed into a helicopter while landing, totaling both aircraft but luckily not causing any casualties.—
Paul Iddon,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025 -
The video shows a couch completely destroyed, with stuffing pulled out and the frame exposed down to the springs.—
Maria Morava,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 Sep. 2025
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André Marques was killed when the tram derailed during evening rush hour in Lisbon, Portugal and went careening into a building, Sitra (Transport Workers' Union) announced this afternoon.—
Hannah Parry,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Sep. 2025
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No children were among the 15 killed.—
Miranda Jeyaretnam,
Time,
4 Sep. 2025
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The Buckeyes benefited from a pair of penalties, including a face mask call on Colin Simmons that wiped out an incomplete pass on third-and-4.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
30 Aug. 2025
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The Buckeyes benefitted from a pair of penalties, including a face-mask call on Colin Simmons that wiped out an incomplete pass on third-and-4.—
Joe Reedy,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Aug. 2025
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The original Steadicam was first launched in 1976 and enabled movie makers to produce smooth and shake-free handheld images, changing movie making in much the same way that the invention of drones did in the last decade.—
Mark Sparrow,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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What fewer people realize is that India is on a path to a shrinking population, which is a corner that China has recently turned and Japan did in 2010.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Aug. 2025
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Between them, Sinner and Alcaraz have dispatched their only serious rival in three straight majors, largely making every other match at these tournaments feel almost immaterial.—
Charlie Eccleshare,
New York Times,
6 Sep. 2025
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The South Korean government launched an emergency response team on Friday, with consulate officials dispatched to the site of the raid.—
Rebecca Schneid,
Time,
6 Sep. 2025
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When a mother tree is felled, the survival rate of many of its seedlings may be drastically reduced, a process not unlike the reciprocal feedback loop of Yggdrasill, whose deterioration in response to discord in the nine realms spells cosmic collapse.—
Ellen Walker,
JSTOR Daily,
3 Sep. 2025
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The storm damaged nearly 7,000 homes, inundated 28,800 hectares of rice plantings and felled 18,000 trees, the government said in a statement.—
Reuters,
NBC news,
26 Aug. 2025
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If there is any unevenness in wear the bomb will slew to one side and curve away from a straight path.—
David Hambling,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2025
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The 'Planetarium View' shows users a representation of the night sky, and tapping on an object gives you the option to slew the telescope to it directly.—
Gemma Lavender,
Space.com,
15 Jan. 2025
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The end result is a new type of meat which doesn't require any animal to be slaughtered.—
Theo Burman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Sep. 2025
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This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Srebrenica Genocide, when Serb forces systematically slaughtered over 8,000 Bosnian Muslims and dumped their bodies into mass graves.—
Seema Jilani
August 29,
Literary Hub,
29 Aug. 2025
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“Tommy-gunned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tommy-gunned. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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