repeater

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Recent Examples of repeater The movement combines three complications, including a perpetual calendar, minute repeater, and constant-force gyrotourbillon. Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 27 Sep. 2024 There were floaters who could not recall the false name under which they were supposed to vote and repeaters who changed their clothes between visits. Sasha Issenberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Sep. 2024 Measuring 30mm x 33mm in yellow gold, its case was broken by a discrete slider on its left flank that triggered the repeater function, while its movement was built by European Watch & Clock Company. Oren Hartov, Robb Report, 15 July 2024 The drones could even help with radio communication, acting as repeaters that would boost signals in the steep and remote areas rescuers often find themselves in. Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 9 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for repeater 
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Noun
  • So, please, don't shoot my eye out with an official Red Ryder, carbine action, 200-shot range model air rifle!
    Chris Nashawaty, EW.com, 11 Dec. 2024
  • This futuristic-looking, semiautomatic pistol calibre carbine required no regulated components and was fully DIY.
    Rajan Basra, WIRED, 5 July 2024
Noun
  • The film focuses on young Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) — who's accidentally left home alone over the holidays — and his clever plans to outwit a pair of criminals trying to rob his home on Christmas Eve.
    Athena Sobhan, People.com, 8 Dec. 2024
  • Trump has said deportations will focus on criminals first, as immigration enforcement has since former President Barack Obama's presidency.
    Sarah D. Wire, USA TODAY, 8 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Sullivan said the district court showed commercially available civilian semi-automatic rifles are not military grade.
    Greg Bishop | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 8 Dec. 2024
  • King changed his long-standing opposition to gun restrictions after the mass shooting and filed a bill that would have raised the age to purchase AR-15 style semiautomatic rifles from 18 to 21 years of age.
    Bayliss Wagner, Austin American-Statesman, 6 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The titanium, which was not native to the body, seemed a likely culprit for the failure.
    Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
  • The Grammy winner finally took matters into her own hands Thursday evening and revealed the culprits behind her bizarre video.
    Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Jordan began serving in a machine gun battalion, but ended in an ordnance detachment.
    Mary Ann Ashcraft, Baltimore Sun, 9 Nov. 2024
  • At the time of the indictment, Dukes was locked up in Dupage County, Ill., for another episode involving a machine gun in a car, according to prosecutors.
    John Annese, New York Daily News, 7 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • The crooks eventually got caught (at least some of them) then served prison time (even fewer of them).
    Ed Herro, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Dec. 2024
  • But plenty of crooks just swipe checks right from your mailbox.
    Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 5 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • After three straight drives in the second half without a first down, the Packers reeled off three in a row to start their next drive but still didn’t score on it after a shotgun run to Jacobs was stuffed well short on fourth and 2 from Seattle’s 39-yard line.
    Michael-Shawn Dugar, The Athletic, 16 Dec. 2024
  • The first Menendez brothers trial for the 1989 shotgun murders of their parents Jose and Kitty resulted in a hung jury.
    Christine Pelisek, People.com, 16 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Time after time after time, Post was released on bail before June 9 because our bail system fails to address recidivists.
    Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 15 June 2024
  • The attack comes less than four months after another recidivist criminal was accused of stabbing two teen sisters visiting New York from Paraguay at Grand Central on Christmas morning.
    John Annese, New York Daily News, 14 Apr. 2024

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