gangster
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Vincent Pastore, best known for playing gangster informant Salvatore “Big Pussy” Bonpensiero on HBO’s “The Sopranos,” has died.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
I think that’s the first time that Yasmin became a gangster.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026
The Scottish Liberal Democrat leader branded the US president a "gangster".
From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2026
One of the greatest gangster films of all time was nearly marred by tragedy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026
He must have been a gangster of some sort, but I cannot be sure.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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Its members have mocked hard-shell cholos and gangsters, often by placing them in funny scenarios.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
Officials no longer talk about eliminating the PCC but managing its uneasy coexistence with the state—often leaving investigators frustrated or stunned by the links between gangsters and the state itself.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 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
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
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