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Recent Examples of machine gun
Benjamin Svetkey, HollywoodReporter, 11 June 2025
There were a lot of the people in the audience who’d gone to this rally, a lot of them had machine guns.
—Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2025
San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2023
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Noun
In December, Instagram removed another of his images, this one depicting a naked Joe Biden posing with a machine gun discreetly covering his presidential bits.
—Benjamin Svetkey, HollywoodReporter, 11 June 2025
There were a lot of the people in the audience who’d gone to this rally, a lot of them had machine guns.
—Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for machine gun
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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
Noun
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Rock’s talent includes shooting down German fighter planes with a single submachine gun and tossing grenades with great accuracy.—
Justin Kroll,
Deadline,
17 Mar. 2025
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Budweiser factories received bomb threats, customers boycotted the beer, and MAGA musician Kid Rock filmed himself shooting up 12-packs with a submachine gun, tears in his eyes.—
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
26 Feb. 2025
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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
Noun
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One of the suspects was also armed with an assault rifle and the car was speeding at the time of the crash, McManus said.—
Melina Khan,
USA Today,
18 July 2025
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Last July 13, just six minutes into Trump's speech to 15,000 fervent fans on the grounds of the Butler Farm Show, Thomas Matthew Crooks fired eight shots from an assault rifle while atop the roof of American Glass Research, some 150 yards away.—
Joshua Rhett Miller,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 July 2025
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In return, he was allowed to effectively destroy a nature site of great conservation value.—
Kim Hjelmgaard,
USA Today,
26 July 2025
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Trump also is destroying the Games’ potential upside.—
Joe Mathews,
Mercury News,
25 July 2025
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With all that, the majority’s legislative leaders and governor decided to increase purchases of any kind of firearm, including assault weapons, by creating an incentive to buy.—
Tina Polsky,
Sun Sentinel,
8 July 2025
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Valencia was booked into San Diego jail on suspicion of murder, owning a firearm without a serial number and possessing an assault weapon, according to Sheriff’s Office online arrest logs.—
Caleb Lunetta,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
2 July 2025
Verb
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The man accused of pulling the trigger in a Christmas Day shooting that killed two Milwaukee teenagers is no longer on the run.—
Chris Ramirez,
jsonline.com,
24 July 2025
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The push for tools to address overdoses has taken on more urgency as deaths from synthetic opioids have skyrocketed in Texas and across the U.S. Fentanyl was identified as the likely cause of a surge of 79 overdoses in Austin last spring, which killed nine people.—
Bayliss Wagner,
Austin American Statesman,
23 July 2025
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Another relative said Vang then threatened her and another woman while the two were in a car in the driveway and that his finger was on the trigger of a rifle pointed at the car.—
Nick Ferraro,
Twin Cities,
22 July 2025
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The families have also filed a lawsuit against Daniel Defense, which manufactured the AR-style rifle used in the May 24, 2022, shooting.—
Sydney Lake,
Fortune,
21 July 2025
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“Machine gun.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/machine%20gun. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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