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Recent Examples of gangsta Imagine a hardcore Black gangsta rapper going toe-to-toe with a wild-eyed white indie rock freak in makeup and shiny black leather pants, as the two repeatedly, gleefully, refer to one another using racial slurs. Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 21 May 2024 Compared with Lower Delmas and G9 areas, the graffiti is less revolutionary, more West Coast gangsta; there are portraits of 2Pac and Ice Cube. Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 26 Nov. 2023 Jefferson gives audiences just a brief taste of this manuscript, imagining a stereotypical conversation between two gangstas, played by Keith David and Okieriete Onaodowan. Peter Debruge, Variety, 9 Sep. 2023 The East Coast old guard bristled at dance and found the idea of Southern gangsta rap, and Southern women gangsta rappers, laughable. Zandria Robinson, Glamour, 2 Nov. 2021 See All Example Sentences for gangsta
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Noun
  • Jesse, understandably, has become more defensive about antisemitism since he was brutally attacked by thugs who singled him out for being Jewish.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2025
  • The hundreds of attacks being made by Houthi, the sinister mobsters and thugs based in Yemen, who are hated by the Yemeni people, all emanate from, and are created by, IRAN.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 18 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • An hour ago, the stocky British actor best known on these shores for playing tough guys and gangsters was on a morning talk show, after having chatted with Jimmy Fallon the previous evening.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 22 Mar. 2025
  • Dealing with the fractious relationship between gangsters and former friends Frank Costello and Vito Genovese, the film strains for an epic quality that the filmmaking doesn’t support.
    Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Malik revealed that his goal was to practice law, specifically focusing on criminal law and personal injury and criminal.
    Francesca Gariano, People.com, 1 Apr. 2025
  • In a recent spree of clemency for white collar criminals, President Trump has pardoned Utah entrepreneur Trevor Milton, who was convicted in 2022 of misleading investors in his hydrogen and electric truck company Nikola.
    Erin Alberty, Axios, 1 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Majors also played the mega villain He Who Remains in Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Loki and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumaia.
    Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 26 Mar. 2025
  • As previously announced, Robert Downey Jr. will be back as the villain Doctor Doom instead of Iron Man.
    Michaela Zee, Variety, 26 Mar. 2025

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“Gangsta.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gangsta. Accessed 4 Apr. 2025.

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