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or .45
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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.
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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
The artists were selected via a multiphase jury process from among 154 applicants chosen by a diverse pool of nominators from forty-five states; 53 percent of this year’s nominators were artists themselves, and 46 percent were first-time participants in the process.
—News Desk, Artforum, 14 Aug. 2024
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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
The artists were selected via a multiphase jury process from among 154 applicants chosen by a diverse pool of nominators from forty-five states; 53 percent of this year’s nominators were artists themselves, and 46 percent were first-time participants in the process.
—News Desk, Artforum, 14 Aug. 2024
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Prosecutors argued that on October 21, 2021, Gutierrez-Reed loaded the revolver at the center of this incident.Victoria Bekiempis, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2024
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Baldwin was pointing the weapon at Hutchins while preparing for a scene when the revolver discharged.Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2024
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Former Indiana State Police Firearm Examiner Melissa Oberg testified the .40 caliber round found between the bodies matched a pistol seized from Allen’s home, according to CNN affiliate WTHR.Zoe Sottile, CNN, 28 Oct. 2024
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Turner was also convicted of four counts of possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime of violence and carrying a pistol without a license.Emily Palmer, People.com, 22 Oct. 2024
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The caller, police said, had told dispatchers a man armed with a handgun was forcing his way into the home.Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 5 Nov. 2024
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Walker, who believed that intruders were entering the home, fired one shot from a handgun, striking one officer.Russell Contreras, Axios, 2 Nov. 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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The society was founded, in 1785, by twenty-two local craftsmen, whose trades included tanning, silversmithing, ship-joining, stonecutting, coach-making, and chandlery.David Owen, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
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The Yankees and the Dodgers are baseball’s Big Oil franchises, the prosperous winners of now forty-one and twenty-two pennants, respectively, since the World Series began.Nicholas Dawidoff, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 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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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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His unique pitching motion featured a very distinct wind-up – twisting at the hip to practically turn his entire body away from home plate and in the process flash his famed No. 23 jersey at the batter – before unleashing the ball with a nearly sidearm pitch.David Close, CNN, 8 Oct. 2024
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The gun used by the man was found at his feet, and it was later revealed to be a replica firearm, Reeson said.Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 5 Nov. 2024
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Park's deer season near A permit-only alternative firearms deer season, formerly muzzle-loader season, is set for Nov. 22-25 at Hobbs State Park-Conservation Area.Flip Putthoff, arkansasonline.com, 5 Nov. 2024
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