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This allows DoD to leverage the ten-fold increase in defense tech investment by venture capital both for commercial items and even for non-commercial items like munitions and military drones.—Michael Brown, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025 Meanwhile, the number of munitions Russia uses in these larger scale attacks has risen from about 100 munitions several years ago to nearly 300 munitions in 2025, the CSIS analysis found.—Daria Tarasova-Markina, CNN Money, 1 Aug. 2025 The Pentagon keeps its inventory of munitions classified.—Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA Today, 1 Aug. 2025 The Toyokawa Naval Arsenal was a key military site for the Japanese Imperial Army to store arms and munitions.—Anne Gelhaus, Mercury News, 27 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for munition
Word History
Etymology
Middle French, from Latin munition-, munitio, from munire to fortify, from moenia walls; akin to Latin murus wall and perhaps to Sanskrit minoti he builds, fastens
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