gangsters
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People are carefully trying to connect the dots, trying to point to places within Dylan’s work where he’s mentioned gangsters or specific moments in American history.
From Salon ● May 12, 2026
Shelby is seen writing a book as a form of therapy, before the world of the Peaky Blinders gangsters "draws him back in, and ultimately his son draws him back into the world", Murphy said.
From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2026
In clipped, fast-moving scenes, Mr. Sayles shifts between the boardroom and the assembly line, and radiates out to develop the roles of attendant characters, from journalists to labor activists to gangsters and rumrunners.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 29, 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
I’ve faced armed detectives and gangsters less hostile than she was.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
