air cover
noun
: protection by armed military airplanes
They had to land in enemy territory without any air cover.
Examples of air cover in a Sentence
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Shifting air cover from site to site over vast distances takes time.
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Tatiana Mitrova, Foreign Affairs, 5 Nov. 2025
The calls Silicon Valley giants made on Tan’s behalf might well have ended with a Trump Truth zinger accusing them all of running air cover for a Chinese sleeper agent.
—Rohan Goswami, semafor.com, 7 Oct. 2025
Trump may be sending his naval force to coerce the Maduro regime in hopes that a Venezuelan military faction will rise against the government in hopes of getting U.S. air cover.
—Andres Oppenheimer
september 3, Miami Herald, 3 Sep. 2025
The big story: Trump will provide Ukraine with air cover but not boots on the ground.
—Diane Brady, Fortune, 20 Aug. 2025
There is more discussion now about part of the security guarantee coming in the form of air cover for Ukraine, a little like the no-fly zones over Iraq back in the 1990s that were designed to prevent attacks by Saddam Hussein’s forces on minorities.
—Tim Lister, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2025
As the late afternoon banter switched between talk of CIA plots to assassinate Castro and President Kennedy’s failure to provide air cover during the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion, one retiree stood up and quietly stepped away from his friends.
—Joshua Goodman, Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2025
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Tatiana Mitrova, Foreign Affairs, 5 Nov. 2025
The calls Silicon Valley giants made on Tan’s behalf might well have ended with a Trump Truth zinger accusing them all of running air cover for a Chinese sleeper agent.
—Rohan Goswami, semafor.com, 7 Oct. 2025
Trump may be sending his naval force to coerce the Maduro regime in hopes that a Venezuelan military faction will rise against the government in hopes of getting U.S. air cover.
—Andres Oppenheimer
september 3, Miami Herald, 3 Sep. 2025
The big story: Trump will provide Ukraine with air cover but not boots on the ground.
—Diane Brady, Fortune, 20 Aug. 2025
There is more discussion now about part of the security guarantee coming in the form of air cover for Ukraine, a little like the no-fly zones over Iraq back in the 1990s that were designed to prevent attacks by Saddam Hussein’s forces on minorities.
—Tim Lister, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2025
As the late afternoon banter switched between talk of CIA plots to assassinate Castro and President Kennedy’s failure to provide air cover during the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion, one retiree stood up and quietly stepped away from his friends.
—Joshua Goodman, Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2025
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“Air cover.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/air%20cover. Accessed 13 Nov. 2025.
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