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Recent Examples of carbine
His face marked by the scars where two 30 caliber carbine slugs blasted half of his face away, former McNairy County Sheriff Buford Pusser points to a section along a lonely blacktop road where he and his wife Pauline were ambushed in 1967.
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CBS News, 9 Feb. 2024
These are the victims of the Nashville school shooting The AR-15 and 9 mm pistol caliber carbine appear to have 30-round magazines, according to experts who reviewed photos and video released by police.
—Ray Sanchez, CNN, 30 Mar. 2023
The shooter was armed with a Hi-Point .45-caliber carbine long gun.
—Phil Helsel, NBC News, 21 Nov. 2023
Kim presented Putin with a carbine made by Korean craftsmen and other gifts, the Kremlin spokesman said.
—Mikhail Klimentov, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2023
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CBS News, 9 Feb. 2024
These are the victims of the Nashville school shooting The AR-15 and 9 mm pistol caliber carbine appear to have 30-round magazines, according to experts who reviewed photos and video released by police.
—Ray Sanchez, CNN, 30 Mar. 2023
The shooter was armed with a Hi-Point .45-caliber carbine long gun.
—Phil Helsel, NBC News, 21 Nov. 2023
Kim presented Putin with a carbine made by Korean craftsmen and other gifts, the Kremlin spokesman said.
—Mikhail Klimentov, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for carbine
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The district office at the Folsom Cordova Unified School District went on lockdown Friday after school officials noticed a person holding what appeared to be a rifle, but the lockdown was lifted after law enforcement found no evidence of a crime, authorities said.—
Ishani Desai,
Sacramento Bee,
14 Feb. 2025
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The bloodshed at the hands of a teenager with a semiautomatic rifle spurred unusual activism from surviving students.—
Jorge L. Ortiz,
USA TODAY,
14 Feb. 2025
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Quarterback Patrick Mahomes lined up in the shotgun formation with running back Kareem Hunt behind him and tight ends Travis Kelce and Noah Gray on either side.—
Kyle Feldscher,
CNN,
8 Feb. 2025
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Football talk is scarce in the NFL’s new three-minute black-and-white promo released today in anticipation of Sunday’s Super Bowl, but with Kendrick Lamar in the driver’s seat, literally, and Timothée Chalamet riding shotgun, few will notice anything else.—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
7 Feb. 2025
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The Sassenach’s survival is an important development, given that Mrs. Fraser ended the previous episode with a musket ball in her liver and an alarming amount of her blood on the ground.—
Kimberly Roots,
TVLine,
6 Jan. 2025
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In recent decades, however, the military has also been polluting the home front, most notably with a toxic chemical never heard of in the era of muskets and drums: PFAS.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
TIME,
25 Sep. 2024
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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
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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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After drinking alcohol with his colleagues, the accused took a machine gun and went to the command dugout, knocked on the door, and started shooting at patrolmen, killing a junior sergeant.—
Justin Gest,
Newsweek,
11 Feb. 2025
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Kevin Parker faces drug charges involving methamphetamine, fentanyl, cocaine, and heroin, along with allegations of being a felon in possession of a gun, unlawful dealing in firearms and possessing and transferring a machine gun, according to the U. S. Attorney’s Office.—
Rosalio Ahumada,
Sacramento Bee,
7 Feb. 2025
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Although a gunshot from a flintlock pistol lasts only an eye blink, the sound is composed of numerous elements: the squeeze of the trigger, the strike of the firing mechanism against the flint, the ignition of the powder, the slug’s passage through the barrel, the report, the impact.—
Alexis Soloski,
New York Times,
3 Jan. 2025
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My first rifle had been a flintlock that had been given to me by an old friend, Ed Wesson, the gunsmith.—
Outdoor Life,
Outdoor Life,
23 Nov. 2023
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Rock’s talent includes shooting down German plans with a single submachine gun and tossing grenades with great accuracy.—
Justin Kroll,
Deadline,
20 Nov. 2024
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Police also found 89 firearms, including handguns, submachine guns and AR-15-style rifles, as well as small explosive devices, large quantities of ammunition, silencers, high-capacity magazines, body armor and $500,000 in Canadian, equivalent to roughly $360,000 in US dollars.—
Max Hauptman,
USA TODAY,
1 Nov. 2024
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First-generation matchlock rifles, tanks, and aircraft had major limitations but improved over time.—
Paul Scharre,
Foreign Affairs,
15 Feb. 2018
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Guns are a part of American life, and have been since the very beginning, from the matchlock muskets arming the earliest colonies to the Colt revolvers and Winchester rifles of the Old West to the Glock handgun of today.—
Kyle Mizokami,
Popular Mechanics,
7 Mar. 2018
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“Carbine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carbine. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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