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Recent Examples of gunner
The petition stated that Jordan served three combat tours totaling 33 months, often in perilous positions as a helicopter gunner, earning him various medals and an honorable discharge.
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Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 27 June 2025
Sure, it can be done when a big bevy has been feeding and rises in scattered section; just slowly enough so a gunner has time to select his shots.
—Nash Buckingham, Outdoor Life, 19 June 2025
Brain experts say the appearance of a rare brain condition in two gunners could still be a coincidence.
—Jon Hamilton, NPR, 14 Jan. 2025
Kravitz was an assistant machine gunner who on March 6-7, 1951, repulsed with his platoon in Yangpyong, Korea, two Chinese probing attacks.
—Richard J. Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 May 2025
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Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 27 June 2025
Sure, it can be done when a big bevy has been feeding and rises in scattered section; just slowly enough so a gunner has time to select his shots.
—Nash Buckingham, Outdoor Life, 19 June 2025
Brain experts say the appearance of a rare brain condition in two gunners could still be a coincidence.
—Jon Hamilton, NPR, 14 Jan. 2025
Kravitz was an assistant machine gunner who on March 6-7, 1951, repulsed with his platoon in Yangpyong, Korea, two Chinese probing attacks.
—Richard J. Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gunner
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The club participates in field archery, indoor and outdoor target archery, 3-D shooting and bow hunting and frequently trains new archers, its website said.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
17 July 2025
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The 34-year-old archer drew his bow, aimed at the fish 18 yards away, and released.—
Bob McNally,
Outdoor Life,
16 July 2025
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Local officers and highway patrol with what was apparently looked like guns drawn according to an eyewitness.—
Jenna Sundel
Gabe Whisnant,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 Aug. 2025
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Mondal also told police his wife pointed a gun at him.—
Quinlan Bentley,
The Enquirer,
1 Aug. 2025
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Unusually for a Victorian sportsman, Wingfield marketed his game equally to men and women, and the fad spread rapidly through the gardens of England and beyond.—
Sam Knight,
New Yorker,
12 July 2025
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Macaluso, too, suggests that rather than fighting over redfish, sportsmen ought to expand their notions of which fish are desirable.—
Boyce Upholt,
Smithsonian Magazine,
25 June 2025
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Hyman was the first victim laid to rest in the days after gunman Shane Tamara, 27, stormed the Park Ave. skyscraper, killed four people, and took his own life.—
Leonard Greene,
New York Daily News,
31 July 2025
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New York City police officers lined city streets to honor their colleague who was killed when a gunman entered a Midtown Manhattan office building and opened fire earlier this week.—
Stephen Sorace , Pilar Arias,
FOXNews.com,
31 July 2025
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The game will start with a new setting, with vault hunters leaving previous installments setting of Pandora for the all-new planet of Kairos, and will confront a villain called The Timekeeper.—
Jonathan Zavaleta,
Rolling Stone,
25 July 2025
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Texas deer hunters still kill more whitetails than anyone else.—
Derek Horner,
Outdoor Life,
23 July 2025
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All districts were open to riflemen and bowmen alike.—
Ray Alt,
Outdoor Life,
27 Mar. 2025
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Shortly after, a procession of riflemen and a statue of the Virgin Mary are paraded from San Geronimo de Taos church in front of more than 1,000 onlookers.—
Chadd Scott,
Forbes,
2 Jan. 2025
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Ephesus also includes the remains of the Temple of Artemis (or Diana) a huntress and goddess of fertility.—
Michael Goldstein,
Forbes.com,
7 June 2025
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Located in a panoramic point of Villa d’Este, the Grotto of Diana, the goddess huntress symbolizing virtue, is a cruciform plan nymphaeum located in the Cardinal’s Walk and was built between 1570 and 1572 by Paolo Calandrino.—
Sandra Salibian,
Footwear News,
16 Apr. 2025
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“Gunner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gunner. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.
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