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Discover LudwigThe phrase "single gunman" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to refer to one individual who is responsible for a shooting incident or attack. Example: "The police confirmed that the incident was carried out by a single gunman who acted alone."
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A single gunman fled.
The massacre led to the largest death toll ever recorded by a single gunman on the rampage.
Witnesses described a single gunman armed with an assault rifle, with one telling the Time of Israel the shooter "smiled before opening fire".
Just over a month ago, Tunisia was stunned by a bloody attack by a single gunman on a beach resort killing 38 tourists, mostly Britons.
Many Afghans, including Mr. Samad, continued to doubt that the attack was the work of a single gunman, as the military said.
If it was the work of a single gunman, he was likely to have been unhinged or motivated by perverted religious or racist hatred.
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We've moved from a world where threats used to be single gunmen to a world where threats and risks are much more complicated".
Bookstores are crowded with new volumes re-examining the single-gunman theory and Kennedy's "vampire romance" with Marilyn Monroe (complete with exceedingly graphic sex scenes).
This is not the act of single deranged gunman who simply decides to walk in to church and shoot somebody.
There are some signs that the killing was planned, not simply the act of a single crazed gunman as the official version has it.
Five people were killed at random Wednesday night and this morning across the northern suburbs of Washington, shot on quiet streets in separate attacks by what the police described as a skilled single-shot gunman who was still at large today despite an intense manhunt.
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