Recent Examples on the WebThe researchers analyzed data from Israel's 7-week-long 2014 war on Gaza to project deaths from unexploded munitions and used existing injury data from Gaza to estimate the number and severity of wounds across the population at the time of ceasefire.—Jonathan Lambert, NPR, 1 Mar. 2024 Video Ad Feedback 01:08 - Source: CNN Concerns over North Korean weapons to Russia
The munitions deliveries from Pyongyang to Moscow have been recorded since just before North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met his counterpart President Vladimir Putin for a September summit in Russia’s far east.—Yoonjung Seo, CNN, 28 Feb. 2024 Commanders there have already begun ordering fighters to ration munitions in the nation’s fight against Russia’s two-year-old invasion.—Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2024 Davis wound up in Honolulu, serving in a munitions company that loaded ships bound for Saipan and Iwo Jima in the Pacific theater.—Graham Womack, Sacramento Bee, 22 Feb. 2024 Western countries are working with Ukraine’s defense industry to enable Kyiv to produce its own ammunition, but Kyiv remains reliant on the U.S. and other countries in particular for artillery shells and air-defense munitions, the European official said.—Daryna Mayer, NBC News, 19 Feb. 2024 The administration has spent months pushing for additional funding, arguing that Ukraine is running out of artillery, air defense weaponry and other munitions.—Catie Edmondson, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2024 The daimyo likely confiscated the vessel’s munitions for use in his ongoing quest to gain control of Japan, which culminated in a clash with Mitsunari and other feudal lords allied with the heir at the October 1600 Battle of Sekigahara.—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Feb. 2024 Ukraine needs more of everything, including air defense munitions, artillery shells, tanks and missile systems.—Tara Sonenshine, The Conversation, 26 Feb. 2024
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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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