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gangster

[gang-ster] / ˈgæŋ stər /


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In 2025 he starred in a gangster movie, playing The Jackal in Fall to the Top, and later the same year appeared in Celebrity MasterChef.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

There’s a rich conversation about the efficacy of influential figures such as gangster Casper Holstein and writer Carl Van Vechten, who helped finance and support, respectively, members of the Harlem Renaissance and their work.

From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2026

In a gangster movie we’d call it muscle: large men with misshapen heads who do the grunt work.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

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

He must have been a gangster of some sort, but I cannot be sure.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

Sivanandhan, who spent years confronting Mumbai's gangsters, knows the limits of even the tightest security.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

Yestin Duran, a 31-year-old beverage vendor, said she feared that "gangsters and robbers can cross over" more easily from Brazil.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

Intrigue begets further intrigue, and the reader struggles to keep up with a swirl of subplots involving Sweety’s assistant, a missing computer, blackmail, gangsters and corrupt politicians.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

Its members have mocked hard-shell cholos and gangsters, often by placing them in funny scenarios.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026

They were the true “OGs,” as the kids say, the original gangsters, and although the language, colors, and turf have changed dramatically over the last four hundred years, the theme is universal.

From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers


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