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or .45
as in revolver
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Share [Findings] Half of the flights taken by British men aged twenty to forty-five are for stag parties.
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Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024
Two years ago, Riley lost to Molinaro by forty-five hundred votes out of a total of nearly three hundred thousand; back then, his campaign could afford only three field organizers.
—Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2024
From September through Election Day, the firm reported, Democrats have reserved nearly forty-five million dollars’ worth of TV ad placements, while Republicans have reserved about forty million.
—Peter Slevin, The New Yorker, 20 Sep. 2024
Webster recently retired after forty-five years as a tool-and-die-maker, and now spends much of his time searching for arrowheads, some of mankind’s earliest tools.
—Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024
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Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024
Two years ago, Riley lost to Molinaro by forty-five hundred votes out of a total of nearly three hundred thousand; back then, his campaign could afford only three field organizers.
—Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2024
From September through Election Day, the firm reported, Democrats have reserved nearly forty-five million dollars’ worth of TV ad placements, while Republicans have reserved about forty million.
—Peter Slevin, The New Yorker, 20 Sep. 2024
Webster recently retired after forty-five years as a tool-and-die-maker, and now spends much of his time searching for arrowheads, some of mankind’s earliest tools.
—Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024
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Meanwhile, Hunter Biden was convicted of lying on a federal form about his drug use to purchase a revolver, submitting a false statement into a federal record, and unlawfully possessing the firearm for 11 days.Jenny Goldsberry, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 8 Dec. 2024
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In June, he was found guilty of three felony charges relating to the purchase of a .38-caliber revolver in Wilmington, Delaware, in 2018.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 2 Dec. 2024
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During the killing, the pistol jammed, but the gunman was able to clear the jam and kept firing before running off.Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 5 Dec. 2024
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Battle as a Mandalorian Nite Owl, Mandalorian Warrior, and two Imperial Commandos, each with their own blaster pistols and jetpack elements.Mia Huelsbeck, People.com, 28 Nov. 2024
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He was released from custody, but the handgun was turned over to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
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Gun switches like what Robinson imported often turn handguns into the equivalent of automatic weapons — with the ability to rapidly empty a gun's magazine with a single trigger pull.David Clarey, Journal Sentinel, 6 Dec. 2024
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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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This victim’s vision seems weird and fraudulent when Priscilla casually color-coordinates derringer pistols with designer dresses.Armond White, National Review, 3 Nov. 2023
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In the end, UnitedHealth paid a bitcoin ransom worth some twenty-two million dollars, and the system lurched back online.Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2024
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One such community is EO, founded in 1987 by Verne Harnish and twenty-two other entrepreneurs.Colin C. Campbell, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
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That’s because the six-shooter is a good approximation for a generic abstraction of a handgun.Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 11 Sep. 2024
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Towering over the Max Motors car lot is a giant gunslinger in the sky, six-shooters drawn and in a bit of a bad mood, judging by his expression.EDWARD M. EVELD, Kansas City Star, 25 Jan. 2024
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In the first quarter, while trailing 3-0, Williams dropped back to pass and tried to flick the ball up the field with a sidearm pass.Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 13 Oct. 2024
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Driving the news: The Phillies simulated Mets' starting pitcher Sean Manaea's oddball, sidearm delivery during batting practice.Isaac Avilucea, Axios, 9 Oct. 2024
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Instead, two-thirds of these killings occur in the home, and most of these murders involve firearms.Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 6 Dec. 2024
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At the department's daily crime briefing, officials also are identifying offenders linked to firearm violence, including any domestic violence involving a gun, and automatically sending those names to the department's Special Investigations Division.Ashley Luthern, Journal Sentinel, 6 Dec. 2024
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“Forty-five.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/forty-five. Accessed 17 Dec. 2024.
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