adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
rifle
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Virtually all the guards carried at least a side-arm and, usually, a semi-automatic rifle .
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Marc Lepine entered the classroom holding a semi-automatic rifle .
weapon
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After those killings, the federal government banned the import of semi-automatic weapons .
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A Democratic-controlled Congress passed a ban on 19 types of semi-automatic weapons in 1994.
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High-powered and semi-automatic weapons can be freely bought.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A police officer armed with a semi-automatic gun stood guard.
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For 20-30 minutes he fired at lunchtime diners with two large-capacity ammunition clip semi-automatic pistols, before finally killing himself.
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He could remember the suppressed clattering noise of the firing on semi-automatic .
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In the late 1960's, a Volkswagen car took 19 man-hours to build, thanks largely to semi-automatic aids.
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It had a dolphin-shaped nose and a semi-automatic gearbox.
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The Fordist labour process base is semi-automatic assembly-line production on the Detroit model.
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The manufacture and sale of nine types of foreign and domestic semi-automatic assault weapons would also be prohibited for three years.
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There's also 2 Smith and Wesson revolvers and a Beretta semi-automatic .