gangsters
Example Sentences
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“Audiences loved gangsters because they were fighting back at the man,” says Kathryn Fuller-Seeley, professor of media studies at the University of Texas at Austin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 21, 2026
There may have been some male suitors but never any who were gangsters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 2026
Critics say the links between Karachi’s gangsters and Islamist terrorists are overdrawn, that the real Karachi is far less glamorous than its Bollywood incarnation, and that one character’s Punjabi accent isn’t quite right.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025
But I’ve seen that look in pro-fighters, football players and serious gangsters.
From Salon ● Nov. 21, 2025
Yet she rose to become one of the most formidable code breakers in the world, the scourge of gangsters and spies.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
