gunpowder
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Gunpowder started to change that, but early firearms were comically inept.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025
Gunpowder, lead and other combustible material had built up inside the structure, the lawyers wrote.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 18, 2025
It is where some of those behind the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605 took shelter and hid before they were caught.
From BBC • Nov. 9, 2023
The event does not only commemorate the failed Gunpowder Plot led by Guy Fawkes in 1605.
From BBC • Nov. 4, 2023
Gunpowder smoke drifted across the crowd as soldiers started running every which a’way, carrying on about “orders this” and “orders that.”
From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson
Vocabulary lists containing gunpowder
East Asia - Middle School
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