guns
Britishnoun
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Now the law: The two sides agree the Founders had no problem barring intoxicated people from carrying guns.
From just before the Wall fell to now, the “guns” sector had the third-best total return out of 49 U.S. sectors defined by Kenneth French, a Dartmouth finance professor.
“The Marble Faun” was published in 1860, a year before Confederate guns fired on Fort Sumter, and seven years after the author’s college friend, President Franklin Pierce, appointed him U.S. consul in Liverpool, England.
He escorted Leah to a waiting carriage with additional guns stacked inside.
From Literature
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After it was signed in South Africa's capital, Pretoria, the guns were silenced, basic services were restored and normality began to return to Tigray.
From BBC
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