as in angry
feeling or showing anger she went ballistic when she discovered her brother reading her e-mail

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Recent Examples on the Web The last time Iran tried to hit Israel with ballistic and cruise missiles, in April, President Joe Biden put heavy pressure on Israel to rein in its response to a symbolic minimum. Bret Stephens, The Mercury News, 3 Oct. 2024 Between 2021 and early 2024, China’s defense industrial base produced more than 400 modern fighter aircraft and 20 large warships, doubled the country’s nuclear warhead inventory and more than doubled its inventory of ballistic and cruise missiles, and developed a new stealth bomber. Seth G. Jones, Foreign Affairs, 2 Oct. 2024 Iran’s missiles Tehran has thousands of ballistic and cruise missiles with a variety of ranges, according to a 2021 report from the Missile Threat Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Gianluca Mezzofiore, CNN, 2 Oct. 2024 But given the strength of Israel’s air defenses, a single missile – even a ballistic one – was always likely to have been shot down. Christian Edwards, CNN, 25 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for ballistic 

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“Ballistic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ballistic. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.

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