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Recent Examples of AK-47
He was arrested after a loaded AK-47 assault rifle was found in his backseat.
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Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 19 Mar. 2025
The Polk County Sheriff’s Office is offering $5,000 for the recovery of the Draco gun, which looks like an AK-47, that deputies believe was used to kill German-Garo.
—Olivia Lloyd, Miami Herald, 26 Feb. 2025
Deputies searched Kennedy’s car and found a mini AK-47 loaded with a 60-round magazine and a loaded Glock pistol with an extended magazine, Linhardt added.
—David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 4 Feb. 2025
With their AK-47s strapped to their vests and their faces covered, the fighters took selfies, shook hands and handed water to passers-by.
—Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 28 Jan. 2025
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Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 19 Mar. 2025
The Polk County Sheriff’s Office is offering $5,000 for the recovery of the Draco gun, which looks like an AK-47, that deputies believe was used to kill German-Garo.
—Olivia Lloyd, Miami Herald, 26 Feb. 2025
Deputies searched Kennedy’s car and found a mini AK-47 loaded with a 60-round magazine and a loaded Glock pistol with an extended magazine, Linhardt added.
—David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 4 Feb. 2025
With their AK-47s strapped to their vests and their faces covered, the fighters took selfies, shook hands and handed water to passers-by.
—Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 28 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for AK-47
Noun
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Former Attorney General Merrick Garland said in October that the Justice Department foiled the plot as the men bought the rifles from an undercover FBI employee.—
Krystal Nurse,
USA Today,
18 Apr. 2025
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Lawmakers raised the rifle buying age to 21 in 2018 after the Parkland shooting.—
Romy Ellenbogen,
Miami Herald,
18 Apr. 2025
Noun
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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
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In an interview with police, a family member said that Luke Howard had a 10mm Hi-Point carbine rifle and a 10mm glock handgun, court records said.—
Kendrick Calfee,
Kansas City Star,
13 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Four officers ran to the fence - three pulling out handguns and another pointing what appeared to be a shotgun.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
9 Apr. 2025
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So the next day, his father rode shotgun, guiding him through traffic and offering wisdom: Never race other taxis to a fare.—
Jonah Markowitz,
New York Times,
8 Apr. 2025
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In Weekend 2 So Ukraine has relied more on 900 mobile defence units, mainly armed with anti-aircraft cannon and machine guns mounted on a variety of vehicles.—
David Hambling,
Forbes.com,
11 Apr. 2025
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The Ukrainian Navy patrol boat zipped across the Black Sea, its double-barreled, 25-millimeter machine gun locked on the horizon.—
Constant Méheut,
New York Times,
7 Apr. 2025
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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The excavation revealed items from various conflicts, including cannonballs, musket shells, and nearly 400 military explosives.—
Stories by Real-Time news team, with AI summarization,
Miami Herald,
7 Mar. 2025
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Cannonballs and musket shells from the Prussian and Napoleonic periods, ceramics from later periods and objects from the World Wars were among the finds, archaeologists said.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
4 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Beretta traces its history to 1526, when Bartolomeo Beretta (d. 1565), a rifle barrel maker in the small northern Italian town of Gardone, sold 185 arquebus barrels—a handheld long gun and a forerunner to the modern rifle—to the Republic of Venice.—
Giacomo Tognini,
Forbes,
25 Mar. 2025
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The worshipers insisted on congregating to pray at the crucifix in the local church and threatened to shoot with an arquebus – a long gun used during the Renaissance period – anyone who got in their way.—
Hannah Marcus,
The Conversation,
25 Sep. 2020
Noun
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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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“AK-47.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/AK-47. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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