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Recent Examples of sidearm
Either him or the sidearm guy from Alabama, Carson Ozmer.
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Mitch Light, New York Times, 15 June 2025
Outside of a fluke infield single from Jo Adell, Neto’s home run was all the Angels mustered against the funky, sidearm delivery of the New York southpaw through six innings.
—Benjamin Royer, Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2025
Clearly the basic architecture is meant to accommodate full field dress: boots, sidearm, plate hanger, the works.
—Mark Ewing, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
So Lee would log on YouTube and search for sidearm pitchers.
—Cody Stavenhagen, The Athletic, 25 Feb. 2025
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Mitch Light, New York Times, 15 June 2025
Outside of a fluke infield single from Jo Adell, Neto’s home run was all the Angels mustered against the funky, sidearm delivery of the New York southpaw through six innings.
—Benjamin Royer, Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2025
Clearly the basic architecture is meant to accommodate full field dress: boots, sidearm, plate hanger, the works.
—Mark Ewing, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
So Lee would log on YouTube and search for sidearm pitchers.
—Cody Stavenhagen, The Athletic, 25 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sidearm
Noun
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Those who remained in the South during the brutal fight for Civil Rights saw leaders and laypeople assassinated by white supremacists with long-range rifles, beaten by the butts of shotguns during marches, or shot with pistols at close range.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 Sep. 2025
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Davis looked at the barrel of the pistol and saw smoke curling upward, as if in slow motion.—
Rachel Monroe,
New Yorker,
16 Sep. 2025
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On the first day of school this month, a 14-year-old was found with a handgun at Johnson Senior High School on Arcade Street and arrested.—
Mara H. Gottfried,
Twin Cities,
19 Sep. 2025
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The woman had travelled from her and her husband’s home in Slough to stay with family in Kent before Edward tracked her down outside a pub and fired four shots at her with a handgun, per Sky News and The Independent.—
Gabrielle Rockson,
PEOPLE,
18 Sep. 2025
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The suspect, who was armed with a revolver handgun, opened fire inside and outside of the school while some students were at lunch.—
Thao Nguyen,
USA Today,
16 Sep. 2025
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Investigators believe the 16-year-old opened fire with a revolver.—
Shelly Bradbury,
Denver Post,
15 Sep. 2025
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One hundred and fifty-nine years ago, a 26-year-old white supremacist and Confederate sympathizer named John Wilkes Booth pointed a .44 caliber derringer pistol at the back of Abraham Lincoln’s head and squeezed the trigger.—
Brian Matthew Jordan,
National Review,
14 Apr. 2024
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In 1976, after wrecking his Rolls-Royce in a drunk-driving accident, he was arrested, intoxicated, with a loaded derringer on the grounds of Elvis Presley’s Graceland estate.—
Chris Morris,
Variety,
28 Oct. 2022
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Speaking on Fox & Friends, Patel said forensic teams identified Robinson's DNA on both a screwdriver and a towel wrapped around the firearm believed to have been used in the fatal shooting.—
Amanda Castro
Hannah Parry
Shane Croucher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 Sep. 2025
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One reason is that the availability of increasingly lethal firearms continues to grow dramatically.—
John J. Donohue,
Time,
15 Sep. 2025
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Its big selling feature is a revolver-like cylinder that spins and snicks along on precision bearings, just like the cylinder of a six-shooter.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
11 June 2025
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Richard’s odds are lousier than Reacher’s were when Beck forced Reacher to play because this revolver is a five-shot model instead of a six-shooter.—
Chris Klimek,
Vulture,
13 Mar. 2025
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There were four Elvises—two in fading black and white, two in lurid colour—all aiming a six-gun straight at her.—
Hazlitt,
Hazlitt,
30 Aug. 2023
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Trumps otherwise basked in the royal limelight on Wednesday, visibly enjoying the pomp and ceremony, which included a royal gun salute, carriage procession through Windsor and guard of honor.—
Holly Ellyatt,
CNBC,
18 Sep. 2025
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Anonymous tips forward to the FBI’s National Threat Operations Center reported threatening posts from a Discord profile that referenced plans for a future massacre and contained pictures of guns.—
Mia Cathell,
The Washington Examiner,
18 Sep. 2025
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“Sidearm.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sidearm. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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