gangster
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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
“The Navy wanted from the Italians all the pictures they could possibly get of every port of Sicily, of every channel,” Meyer Lansky, another notorious gangster, later testified.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
I think that’s the first time that Yasmin became a gangster.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026
Conleth Hill joins as Clemmy Keeler, the fierce patriarch of the Keeler gangster family, who rival the Peaky Blinders' ambitions to rebuild the city.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026
He could have been a “gambler or lawyer or maybe a gangster from Chicago.”
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
Egyptian authorities argued criminal gangsters were to blame for Regeni's murder and suggested various other explanations for his death, including a car accident, failed drug deal, or botched robbery.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 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
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
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
I was waiting for the bus after school when three wanna-be gangsters approached me.
From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers
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