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Recent Examples of machine gun
Rob Wieland, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025
These planes had multiple machine guns, held over 20,000 pounds of bombs and were especially suited to fly to Japan from bases in China during World War II, according to the National Museum of the United States Air Force.
—Kerry Breen, CBS News, 27 Mar. 2025
San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2023
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Noun
Shadowrun took two of the most popular genres at the time—fantasy and cyberpunk—and brought them together that allowed cyborgs to shoot machine guns at dragons.
—Rob Wieland, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025
These planes had multiple machine guns, held over 20,000 pounds of bombs and were especially suited to fly to Japan from bases in China during World War II, according to the National Museum of the United States Air Force.
—Kerry Breen, CBS News, 27 Mar. 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
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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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The 24-year-old, who fired an AR-15-style assault rifle from a rooftop into the parade’s crowd, is expected to spend the rest of his life behind bars.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
23 Apr. 2025
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The assault rifle that was allegedly going to be used to carry out the murder.—
Dennis Romero,
NBC News,
22 Mar. 2025
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Aid distributed inside Israeli military zones Gaza’s roughly 2 million Palestinians are almost completely reliant on international aid because nearly all food production capabilities have been destroyed.—
Wafaa Shurafa,
Los Angeles Times,
8 June 2025
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The strike was also part of a broader pattern of attacks on healthcare facilities, which resulted in approximately 80% of the city’s healthcare facilities being critically damaged or destroyed.—
Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab,
Forbes.com,
8 June 2025
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The shooter was armed with an AR-15, one of the firearms commonly referred to as an assault weapon.—
Lindsay Whitehurst,
Chicago Tribune,
2 June 2025
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For more than a decade, the justices have turned away gun-rights appeals that challenged local or state bans on assault weapons.—
David G. Savage,
Los Angeles Times,
2 June 2025
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The California Department of Justice will investigate a fatal shooting by Los Angeles Police Department officers under a law that empowers the state attorney general to probe police shootings of unarmed people — despite the LAPD saying the man killed Tuesday was holding a gun.—
Matthew Ormseth,
Los Angeles Times,
6 June 2025
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In a separate development, Israeli strikes across Gaza killed at least 26 people late Tuesday and into Wednesday, according to hospital officials.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
5 June 2025
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Their daughter competed for Puerto Rico in rifle shooting at the Olympics in 2016, 2021 and 2024.—
Jessica Schladebeck,
New York Daily News,
4 June 2025
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The man said he was armed with an AK-47 rifle and three magazines, a handgun and one pound of C-4 explosives strapped to his chest.—
Robert A. Cronkleton,
Kansas City Star,
4 June 2025
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“Machine gun.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/machine%20gun. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.
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