Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gun (for)
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Upon seeing Tamura, the cleaner ran down the hall, taking her rolling garbage can on wheels with her, Chell said.—
Thomas Tracy,
New York Daily News,
30 July 2025 -
Meanwhile Neymar was already running down the line to celebrate.—
Joseph O'Sullivan,
Forbes.com,
24 July 2025
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The man accused of pulling the trigger in a Christmas Day shooting that killed two Milwaukee teenagers is no longer on the run.—
Chris Ramirez,
jsonline.com,
24 July 2025
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They are expected to dwell on a central question that has not been answered: Why would a graduate student brutally kill four students who attended a nearby college, and leave two of their roommates alive?—
Bill Chappell,
NPR,
23 July 2025
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Subtle shifts in the electrical patterns coursing through her neural fibers had flagged the impending relapse weeks before her outward symptoms reappeared.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
30 June 2025
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Three months is a long time, and may be enough to course correct as the shows go on, especially as word of mouth begins to spread after the first few weekends.—
Juan J. Arroyo,
Rolling Stone,
11 July 2025
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The funeral cortège, paid for by the musician’s family, trailed through the city with Osbourne’s casket in a black hearse.—
Emily Zemler,
Rolling Stone,
30 July 2025
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After trailing by as many as 16 points, Hartley got hot in the final three minutes with eight points to power the Sun into halftime down just 57-46.—
Emily Adams,
Hartford Courant,
29 July 2025
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Rather than pursuing general-purpose models that compete with ChatGPT, Switzerland aims to develop large language models for specific applications in fields such as science, education, healthcare, robotics and climate studies.—
Cornelia C. Walther,
Forbes.com,
14 July 2025
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Together, they’re pursued by Magneto's (Ian McKellen) Brotherhood of Mutants and eventually rescued by Xavier (Patrick Stewart) and the X-Men.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
14 July 2025
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The shocker is a plot of earth’s temperature, obtained from ice cores and lake sediments, tracks minima and maxima of the sunspot plot at six different times between 1600 and 2000.—
Ian Dexter Palmer,
Forbes.com,
4 Aug. 2025
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The National Hurricane Center is tracking two systems in the Atlantic — one off the coast of the United States and the other by Africa — that have marginal chances of forming into something stronger.—
Devoun Cetoute,
Miami Herald,
3 Aug. 2025
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“Gun (for).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gun%20%28for%29. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.
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