repeater

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Recent Examples of repeater At least seven top luxury watchmakers release perpetual calendars this year—some in multiple iterations, others in combination with minute repeaters. Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 15 June 2025 The Slate 7 can attach directly to an Ethernet port or else it can be tethered to a smartphone, work as a repeater for a public hotspot or use a cellular modem like a USB dongle plugged directly into the USB port. Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 8 June 2025 Deploying that communications infrastructure (like antennae or repeaters) requires boots on the ground. Harry Law, Time, 5 June 2025 This is only the second time in the last 33 years that three of the final four teams are repeaters, with Stars-Oilers a do-over from last season and Florida attempting to make the final a third consecutive time. James Mirtle, New York Times, 22 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for repeater
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Noun
  • Elam has been researching the Pusser case for decades, and has provided information to the TBI, including a 2023 lead on a carbine that may have belonged to Pusser.
    Keith Sharon, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
  • Hale’s firearms included an AR-15 pistol, a semi-automatic AR pistol, a semi-automatic carbine rifle and a semi-automatic pistol.
    John Miller, CNN Money, 2 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Anti-crime priorities In his remarks, Abbott also unveiled some get-tougher-on crime proposals, including eliminating parole for criminals convicted of child trafficking.
    John C. Moritz, Austin American Statesman, 30 July 2025
  • And despite promises by the administration to remove the worst criminals, ICE deportation data from Jan. 1 to June 24 shows most people who were removed or detained didn’t have a violent criminal record, CBS News reported.
    Natalie Demaree, Miami Herald, 28 July 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • TikTok and social media are the culprits behind what appears to be a 2000s fashion resurgence.
    Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 30 July 2025
  • Earnings could be the culprit, with negative reactions outweighing the positives.
    Jeff Marks, CNBC, 29 July 2025
Noun
  • Akram Aker, another witness, said troops fired machine guns mounted on tanks and drones.
    Wafaa Shurafa, Chicago Tribune, 19 July 2025
  • Joe ducks into a gun store, emerging with a machine gun.
    Randall Colburn, EW.com, 18 July 2025
Noun
  • No matter, a crook is bound to try to convince you otherwise.
    Susan Tompor, USA Today, 30 July 2025
  • The lanky suspect, who was caught on camera toting a backpack and carrying a paper shopping bag in the crook of his arm, attacked his first victim, a 25-year-old woman, at about 2:05 a.m. on May 17 at the border of SoHo and Greenwich Village, cops said.
    Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 12 July 2025
Noun
  • And this slasher Santa Claus doesn't mess around, using an axe and a shotgun with deadly intention and also down for impaling people on deer antlers.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 26 July 2025
  • Before his arrest, Vang’s son went to the home and secured a shotgun and two rifles.
    Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 22 July 2025
Noun
  • This graphic novel keeps the spirit of the Blues Brothers alive; mischievous recidivists, musical outlaws who above everything, care about the Blues.
    Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 12 June 2025
  • Yet this seemingly entirely unnecessary act of recidivist safeguarding was how Tristan da Cunha came to be populated.
    The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 23 May 2025

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“Repeater.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/repeater. Accessed 5 Aug. 2025.

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