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Recent Examples of gunrunner
Her father’s work as a gunrunner and pilot led the British authorities to throw him in jail, weeks after Ms. Mehta was born.
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Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2023
By shuttling weapons to warlords in Liberia and a dictator in Zaïre, among others, Bout became the most notorious gunrunner of the past quarter century.
—Casey Michel, Foreign Affairs, 20 Sep. 2017
There are brash foreign fighters and humble food drivers and furtive gunrunners and ancient babushkas knitting camouflage ghillie suits in community gyms.
—Peter Rubin, Longreads, 23 Feb. 2023
The 53-year-old Bout, a gunrunner, was the inspiration behind Nicholas Cage’s character in the 2005 film ‘‘Lord of War’’ and was on the radar of Western intelligence agencies for years before a 2008 Drug Enforcement Administration operation led to his capture.
—Isabelle Khurshudyan, BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2020
Before World War II, Crabb had a number of exotic jobs, including male model, gunrunner, and spy.
—Emma Barrett and Paul Martin, Discover Magazine, 4 Dec. 2014
That deal was engineered by an Iranian-American gunrunner with ties to the CIA who was not named in the U.S. court documents.
—Jon Gambrell, Anchorage Daily News, 4 June 2020
Alan O'Neill, known for playing Irish gunrunner Hugh on FX's Sons of Anarchy, died Wednesday in Los Angeles.
—Bill Keveney, USA TODAY, 7 June 2018
Mitchum appeared as Eddie Coyle—who also goes by Eddie Fingers—a soon-to-be-incarcerated Boston gunrunner compelled to work with the authorities as a squealer.
—Peter Tonguette, WSJ, 31 July 2017
Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2023
By shuttling weapons to warlords in Liberia and a dictator in Zaïre, among others, Bout became the most notorious gunrunner of the past quarter century.
—Casey Michel, Foreign Affairs, 20 Sep. 2017
There are brash foreign fighters and humble food drivers and furtive gunrunners and ancient babushkas knitting camouflage ghillie suits in community gyms.
—Peter Rubin, Longreads, 23 Feb. 2023
The 53-year-old Bout, a gunrunner, was the inspiration behind Nicholas Cage’s character in the 2005 film ‘‘Lord of War’’ and was on the radar of Western intelligence agencies for years before a 2008 Drug Enforcement Administration operation led to his capture.
—Isabelle Khurshudyan, BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2020
Before World War II, Crabb had a number of exotic jobs, including male model, gunrunner, and spy.
—Emma Barrett and Paul Martin, Discover Magazine, 4 Dec. 2014
That deal was engineered by an Iranian-American gunrunner with ties to the CIA who was not named in the U.S. court documents.
—Jon Gambrell, Anchorage Daily News, 4 June 2020
Alan O'Neill, known for playing Irish gunrunner Hugh on FX's Sons of Anarchy, died Wednesday in Los Angeles.
—Bill Keveney, USA TODAY, 7 June 2018
Mitchum appeared as Eddie Coyle—who also goes by Eddie Fingers—a soon-to-be-incarcerated Boston gunrunner compelled to work with the authorities as a squealer.
—Peter Tonguette, WSJ, 31 July 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gunrunner
Noun
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Dogs, skunks, ferrets, foxes, coyotes and even squirrels can all be affected.Gina Lee Castro, Journal Sentinel, 20 Nov. 2024
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One team shows up with 11 coyotes and eight bobcats, the most combined.Britta Lokting, Rolling Stone, 13 Oct. 2024
Noun
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Jordanian troops opened fire, killing twenty-seven smugglers and wounding several others.Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
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Then Egyptian smugglers take them to the city of Aswan.Ryan Lenora Brown, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Oct. 2024
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In this modern fairy tale, McCullers creates the perfect love triangle: Miss Amelia the bootlegger, her ex-convict ex-husband, and the trickster Cousin Lymon.The Week US, theweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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Spikes in methanol poisonings are common in Iran, where ordinary alcohol can’t be sold or consumed and bootleggers often use industrial methanol to produce homemade alcoholic drinks instead.ByKai Kupferschmidt, science.org, 31 Oct. 2024
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“Gunrunner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gunrunner. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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