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Recent Examples of machine gun
Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 28 Jan. 2025
Kyiv will also soon utilize a new droid fighter with a robotic system and mounted machine gun.
—Kristen Waggoner, Newsweek, 22 Jan. 2025
San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2023
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Noun
Amur said the North Koreans appear to have the more modern versions of Russian standard issue equipment, with most in possession of around 10 magazines, 5-10 grenades, machine gun ammunition and mines.
—Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 28 Jan. 2025
Kyiv will also soon utilize a new droid fighter with a robotic system and mounted machine gun.
—Kristen Waggoner, Newsweek, 22 Jan. 2025
Verb
As someone who grew up in the Dodgers’ family and now can’t stand the sight of them, who wants to beat them as Buddy Rich might machine-gun his snare drum.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2023
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One casing is a 9mm caliber, likely a pistol, or a machine pistol or a submachine gun, Weir said.—
Mohammad Al Sawalhi,
CNN,
26 June 2024
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Prosecutors said police found two weapons in the getaway car when the men were detained on a highway about 50 kilometers (30 miles) outside Amsterdam, a Heckler and Koch machine pistol and, in a Louis Vuitton bag, a blank-firing pistol that had been modified to take 9-millimeter rounds.—
MIKE CORDER,
ajc,
18 Oct. 2021
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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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After speeches by longtime colleagues (the F.B.I. director, Christopher Wray, presented him with a replica tommy gun), Garland spoke.—
Fabio Bertoni,
The New Yorker,
17 Jan. 2025
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Gauging from the trailer, this grisly period piece appears to be set in the South with Jordan starring in a dual role as a pair of twins, at least one of whom gets to spray bullets with a retro tommy gun.—
Meredith Blake,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Jan. 2025
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And five months later, less than three miles from the NSSF’s Connecticut headquarters at the time, another young man, armed with an assault rifle, slaughtered 26 people at Sandy Hook Elementary School, including 20 children.—
Corey G. Johnson,
ProPublica,
5 Feb. 2025
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The weapon tiers will remain largely the same, so assault rifles will still stack above SMGs in their effectiveness.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
5 Feb. 2025
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The Eaton fire happened on Jan. 7 and Allen’s house was destroyed, along with that of his assistant.—
Eric Sondheimer,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Feb. 2025
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The storm destroyed every structure on the island, wiping out the concert stage, tiki bar, giant slide and food truck.—
Gabrielle Calise Tampa Bay Times (TNS),
arkansasonline.com,
8 Feb. 2025
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One of the ghost guns was an AR-15-style assault rifle, and two additional AR-15-style assault weapons were also recovered, prosecutors said.—
Leonard Greene,
New York Daily News,
6 Feb. 2025
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Her organization continues to advocate for an assault weapons ban and background checks on all firearm sales, but such ideas are going nowhere in a Washington where the GOP controls the White House and both chambers of Congress.—
Lexi Lonas Cochran,
The Hill,
12 Jan. 2025
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The dismissals come less than three weeks after a midair collision between an American Airlines regional jet and a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter killed 67 people and brought new scrutiny to air traffic controllers and their workloads.—
Joey Garrison,
USA TODAY,
18 Feb. 2025
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Train hoppers can and do get injured or even killed.—
Manuela López Restrepo,
NPR,
17 Feb. 2025
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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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“Machine gun.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/machine%20gun. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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