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a usually round or cone-shaped little piece of lead made to be fired from a firearm
it is possible to make your own bullets, but it takes a lot of patience and some extra money
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Recent Examples of bullets
Following the dismissal, Morrissey argued that the judge had been misled by the defense, and that the bullets were irrelevant to the case.
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Gene Maddaus, Variety, 24 Dec. 2024
Homages to the Bethesda games’ slow-motion kills are aplenty, with gratuitous shots of bullets tearing through bodies and painting the walls red.
—Ars Technica, 24 Dec. 2024
Advertisement Authorities are encouraging citizens to take up interest in national defense in the country with an 830-mile border with Russia, where firing shots in ice hockey has been more of a pastime than shooting bullets.
—James Brooks, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2024
After the bullets stopped flying, the older victim ran from the scene and took himself to NY-Presbyterian Queens for treatment, cops said.
—Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 20 Dec. 2024
Three of them were rifle bullets.
—Keith Sharon, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024
Seymour and her colleagues also found other artifacts at the site, including crossbow bolts, lead bullets, swords, daggers, chain mail and plate armor.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Dec. 2024
Intersperse short paragraphs and bullets, with plenty of white space and attractive fonts to make the overall impact more visually appealing.
—Martin Zwilling, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
Tracing a ghost gun’s bullets in criminal investigations can be difficult.
—Corey Kilgannon, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2024
Gene Maddaus, Variety, 24 Dec. 2024
Homages to the Bethesda games’ slow-motion kills are aplenty, with gratuitous shots of bullets tearing through bodies and painting the walls red.
—Ars Technica, 24 Dec. 2024
Advertisement Authorities are encouraging citizens to take up interest in national defense in the country with an 830-mile border with Russia, where firing shots in ice hockey has been more of a pastime than shooting bullets.
—James Brooks, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2024
After the bullets stopped flying, the older victim ran from the scene and took himself to NY-Presbyterian Queens for treatment, cops said.
—Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 20 Dec. 2024
Three of them were rifle bullets.
—Keith Sharon, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024
Seymour and her colleagues also found other artifacts at the site, including crossbow bolts, lead bullets, swords, daggers, chain mail and plate armor.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Dec. 2024
Intersperse short paragraphs and bullets, with plenty of white space and attractive fonts to make the overall impact more visually appealing.
—Martin Zwilling, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
Tracing a ghost gun’s bullets in criminal investigations can be difficult.
—Corey Kilgannon, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2024
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“Bullets.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bullets. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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