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Recent Examples of speargun
Dakota, who is paddling toward her in a boat, then uses a speargun to help fight off the sharks.
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Christopher Rudolph,
PEOPLE,
15 Apr. 2026
Fish and wildlife police are looking for the culprit who shot an American crocodile with a speargun in the Florida Keys over the weekend.
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David Goodhue,
Miami Herald,
20 Oct. 2025
When Ray attacks Julie, Ava shoots him through the back with his speargun, killing him.
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Megan McCluskey,
Time,
18 July 2025
That afternoon, Mariottini went diving, hunting for amberjacks and sea bream with his speargun.
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Elena Clavarino,
Air Mail,
12 July 2025
Because the fish can both hear noise and feel vibrations, divers must take care not to, say, bump their speargun on the bottom while listening for croaks.
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Mike Raabe,
Outdoor Life,
2 July 2025
This means that Hara had to catch the fish in 60-degree water with all her gear — a 10-pound weight belt, snorkel, fins and 2-pound EduSub speargun.
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Kaila Yu,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Dec. 2022
The hope is that a robust consumer market will incentivize lionfish hunting, and that humans with spearguns will become the predators that invasive lionfish need.
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IEEE Spectrum,
14 Mar. 2019
Christopher Rudolph,
PEOPLE,
15 Apr. 2026
Fish and wildlife police are looking for the culprit who shot an American crocodile with a speargun in the Florida Keys over the weekend.
—
David Goodhue,
Miami Herald,
20 Oct. 2025
When Ray attacks Julie, Ava shoots him through the back with his speargun, killing him.
—
Megan McCluskey,
Time,
18 July 2025
That afternoon, Mariottini went diving, hunting for amberjacks and sea bream with his speargun.
—
Elena Clavarino,
Air Mail,
12 July 2025
Because the fish can both hear noise and feel vibrations, divers must take care not to, say, bump their speargun on the bottom while listening for croaks.
—
Mike Raabe,
Outdoor Life,
2 July 2025
This means that Hara had to catch the fish in 60-degree water with all her gear — a 10-pound weight belt, snorkel, fins and 2-pound EduSub speargun.
—
Kaila Yu,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Dec. 2022
The hope is that a robust consumer market will incentivize lionfish hunting, and that humans with spearguns will become the predators that invasive lionfish need.
—
IEEE Spectrum,
14 Mar. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for speargun
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Investigators said that the child was not injured after the bite, and the dog had already been separated and was back inside its home when Reyes Rodriguez armed himself with a rifle, entered the neighbor's home, shot the dog and killed it.
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As the crowd passed through the neighborhood, the McCloskeys emerged from their home carrying firearms — Mark with an AR-15-style rifle and Patricia with a handgun.
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The autopsy determined that Wiley's cause of death was a shotgun wound to the torso, according to Crump.
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In a photo from a court document, a 12-gauge shotgun is shown inside a Rocky Ford residence inhabited by Mario Rocha.
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The man initially refused but signed after Pooh Shiesty allegedly pointed an AK-style pistol his head.
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Prosecutors allege the pistol was used in a 2021 Chicago murder and later in the shooting of a rival gang member.
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The first battle is a bloodbath, with the men picked off by musket fire almost at random.
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The new United States needed muskets, cannons, ammunition, uniforms, cloth, food and credit.
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Trump would also stop treating the Europeans as enemies with his blunderbuss tariffs.
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Cost cutting ‘blunderbuss’ DOGE is part of a long line of presidential efforts to take an ax to the administrative state.
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Smoke billowed from his flintlock and Rhoades didn’t see where the buck ran after the shot.
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Modern gun technologies are far, far more deadly than the one-shot flintlocks of the 18th century—shouldn’t that matter?
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Memphis police say National Guard troops fired their weapons in the early morning hours Sunday, killing a man who was armed with a handgun.
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The lawsuit also challenges California’s decades-old handgun roster, which requires new handgun models to pass certain safety tests before they can be approved for retail sale.
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To put that in perspective, when Beretta started making arquebus barrels, Michelangelo was still working in Rome.
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“Speargun.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/speargun. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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