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Recent Examples of gunman
Syrian security forces and affiliated gunmen have killed more than 340 civilians, the vast majority of them from the Alawite minority, over the last two days, Rami Abdulrahman of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told Reuters on Saturday.
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Benjamin Weinthal, Fox News, 8 Mar. 2025
For example, during the 2017 shooting at the Route 91 Harvest Music festival in Las Vegas, a gunman killed 60 people and wounded 413 others.
—Elizabeth Hernandez, The Denver Post, 7 Mar. 2025
Rami Abdurrahman, head of the monitoring group, said the gunmen who ambushed the police force are Alawites.
—Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 7 Mar. 2025
The couple, who were on vacation visiting family, were traveling in a black 2016 Ford Platinum pickup truck when gunmen opened fire near an intersection.
—Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 26 Feb. 2025
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Benjamin Weinthal, Fox News, 8 Mar. 2025
For example, during the 2017 shooting at the Route 91 Harvest Music festival in Las Vegas, a gunman killed 60 people and wounded 413 others.
—Elizabeth Hernandez, The Denver Post, 7 Mar. 2025
Rami Abdurrahman, head of the monitoring group, said the gunmen who ambushed the police force are Alawites.
—Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 7 Mar. 2025
The couple, who were on vacation visiting family, were traveling in a black 2016 Ford Platinum pickup truck when gunmen opened fire near an intersection.
—Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 26 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gunman
Noun
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The 18-year-old man and the two minors were arrested Feb. 12, on suspicion of crimes encompassing robbery as well as assault and gun crimes.—
Robert Salonga,
The Mercury News,
10 Mar. 2025
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There is no point in the enormous gun variety in the game if only a handful are viable.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes,
10 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Reeves is John Wick, but that doesn't mean that the world that is currently being built around the famed assassin doesn't have others that could act as de facto John Wick.—
Faisal Kutty,
Newsweek,
12 Mar. 2025
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In his presentation on Monday, Hochman drew a parallel between the Menendez case and the case of Sirhan Sirhan, the assassin of Robert Kennedy.—
Gene Maddaus,
Variety,
10 Mar. 2025
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Five STEEDs on display just off the production room include a command center, generator, machine gunner and ambulance-style bed.—
Catherine Muccigrosso,
Charlotte Observer,
13 Mar. 2025
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Crew can be assigned to the deck or boarding teams, with multiple slots for cannoneers, gunners, and boarders.—
PCMAG,
PCMAG,
20 Feb. 2025
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There were radicals, activists, intellectuals as well as common criminals, the usual power brokers, and always a mob lurking in the background.—
Phil Terrana,
Baltimore Sun,
20 Mar. 2025
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The film follows an American student (Seberg) in Paris who loves a dangerous criminal (Belmondo) obsessed with Humphrey Bogart.—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
20 Mar. 2025
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Matt Dillon as Bob Hughes, lead junkie bandit of Drugstore Cowboy would also slot right in now, as would the late River Phoenix as conflicted hustler Mike Waters in Idaho.—
Matt Thompson,
SPIN,
3 Feb. 2025
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Want to try and take on a bandit camp but don’t want to risk dying?—
George Yang,
Rolling Stone,
3 Feb. 2025
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However, a small spatter of blood on the outside of the box could potentially be the perp’s.—
Nick Caruso,
TVLine,
24 Jan. 2025
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Now, when someone tries to unlock your phone, Bitdefender will silently send you a picture of the perp.—
PCMAG,
PCMAG,
14 Jan. 2025
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He was also charged with one count of being a felon in possession of a weapon and ammunition.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
20 Mar. 2025
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He has also been charged with domestic violence and being a felon in possession of a firearm.—
Nate Gartrell,
The Mercury News,
19 Mar. 2025
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Still, this adaptation of an O. Henry story tilts all its sympathies toward the outlaw hero the Cisco Kid (Warner Baxter, in a Best Actor–winning role) and away from the pompous white soldier charged with tracking him down.—
Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
3 Mar. 2025
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But like the always-wearing-shades outlaw in that song, David Johansen was good-bad, not evil.—
Rob Sheffield,
Rolling Stone,
1 Mar. 2025
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“Gunman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gunman. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.
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