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Recent Examples of machine gun
Benjamin Svetkey, HollywoodReporter, 11 June 2025
There were a lot of the people in the audience who’d gone to this rally, a lot of them had machine guns.
—Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2025
San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2023
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Noun
In December, Instagram removed another of his images, this one depicting a naked Joe Biden posing with a machine gun discreetly covering his presidential bits.
—Benjamin Svetkey, HollywoodReporter, 11 June 2025
There were a lot of the people in the audience who’d gone to this rally, a lot of them had machine guns.
—Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2025
Verb
As someone who grew up in the Dodgers’ family and now can’t stand the sight of them, who wants to beat them as Buddy Rich might machine-gun his snare drum.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for machine gun
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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
Noun
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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
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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
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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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Gauging from the trailer, this grisly period piece appears to be set in the South with Jordan starring in a dual role as a pair of twins, at least one of whom gets to spray bullets with a retro tommy gun.—
Meredith Blake,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Jan. 2025
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Republican Divide Over Gaza Grows in Wake of Trump’s Calls for More Aid The measure on assault rifles failed by 72-27, blocked by 17 Democrats and all Republican senators.—
Solcyré Burga,
Time,
31 July 2025
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The gunman, identified as 27-year-old Shane Devin Tamura entered the high-rise shortly before 6:30 p.m., carrying an assault rifle.—
Dianna Russini,
New York Times,
29 July 2025
Verb
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In return, he was allowed to effectively destroy a nature site of great conservation value.—
Kim Hjelmgaard,
USA Today,
26 July 2025
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Trump also is destroying the Games’ potential upside.—
Joe Mathews,
Mercury News,
25 July 2025
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Her statement was also in part a call to action, as the governor showed her support for a national assault weapons ban.—
Chad de Guzman,
Time,
29 July 2025
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The Supreme Court turns away a 2nd Amendment challenge to blue-state bans on assault weapons.—
Hailey Branson-Potts,
Los Angeles Times,
3 June 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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Failure Summary: Kubernetes killed pods that were technically running but unable to connect to the database.—
Raju Dandigam,
Forbes.com,
23 July 2025
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Another relative said Vang then threatened her and another woman while the two were in a car in the driveway and that his finger was on the trigger of a rifle pointed at the car.—
Nick Ferraro,
Twin Cities,
22 July 2025
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The families have also filed a lawsuit against Daniel Defense, which manufactured the AR-style rifle used in the May 24, 2022, shooting.—
Sydney Lake,
Fortune,
21 July 2025
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“Machine gun.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/machine%20gun. Accessed 5 Aug. 2025.
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