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  • noun Plural form of samurai.

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Examples

  • My true inner-killer combatant was revealed as I underwent a personalized warrior assessment from the chief physician of Spike TV's "Deadliest Warrior," the show where civilization's most skilled military fighters are pitted against one another to determine last warrior standing: Vikings clash with samurais; Green Berets skirmish Spetsnaz; Maoris collide with Shaolin monks.

    Harmon Leon: Finding My Inner Killer Harmon Leon 2011

  • My true inner-killer combatant was revealed as I underwent a personalized warrior assessment from the chief physician of Spike TV's "Deadliest Warrior," the show where civilization's most skilled military fighters are pitted against one another to determine last warrior standing: Vikings clash with samurais; Green Berets skirmish Spetsnaz; Maoris collide with Shaolin monks.

    Harmon Leon: Finding My Inner Killer Harmon Leon 2011

  • Often, Asians are only cast if the characters are specifically Asian, often leading to stereotypes like Japanese shutterbug tourists; the owners of restaurants, corner stores, or dry cleaners; exchange students; Asian gang members; martial artists/ninjas/samurais; or anything that would seem "funnier" if done with a thick Asian accent.

    Jonathan Kim: Why The Green Hornet's Kato Matters Jonathan Kim 2011

  • Japan's reactionary Tokugawa shogunate employed gunpowder to obliterate troublemakers and then banned all guns—even its own—for the sake of preserving the samurais' sword-wielding hegemony.

    Where They Got Their Grit Alexander Rose 2011

  • Often, Asians are only cast if the characters are specifically Asian, often leading to stereotypes like Japanese shutterbug tourists; the owners of restaurants, corner stores, or dry cleaners; exchange students; Asian gang members; martial artists/ninjas/samurais; or anything that would seem "funnier" if done with a thick Asian accent.

    Jonathan Kim: Why The Green Hornet's Kato Matters Jonathan Kim 2011

  • Over the tagged panels, using his own paper stencils that are unique to each painting, Fujita creates intricate compositions, which feature samurais, geishas, dragons, tigers and fish, using spraypaint, paint marker and Mean Streak, in striking colors.

    Bill Bush: Made in L.A.: This Artweek.LA (October 10-16, 2011) Bill Bush 2011

  • Over the tagged panels, using his own paper stencils that are unique to each painting, Fujita creates intricate compositions, which feature samurais, geishas, dragons, tigers and fish, using spraypaint, paint marker and Mean Streak, in striking colors.

    Bill Bush: Made in L.A.: This Artweek.LA (October 10-16, 2011) Bill Bush 2011

  • It will be interesting to see how all the flag-waving Republican "patriots" and sofa samurais will react when asked to pay for the wars they so passionately support -- provided they are without apparent cost.

    Eric Margolis: Attention All Republican Flag-Wavers -- If You Want Wars Abroad, Pay for Them Eric Margolis 2010

  • It will be interesting to see how all the flag-waving Republican "patriots" and sofa samurais will react when asked to pay for the wars they so passionately support -- provided they are without apparent cost.

    Eric Margolis: Attention All Republican Flag-Wavers -- If You Want Wars Abroad, Pay for Them Eric Margolis 2010

  • Before that, the chills come via a middle-age woman and her young daughter-in-law who kill wandering samurais amid the tall grasses surrounding their isolated hut.

    Haunting Films From Japan David Mermelstein 2010

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