air strike
noun
: an attack in which military airplanes drop bombs
The strategy calls for air strikes on key targets.
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Another clip showed a plume of smoke billowing from the Revolutionary Court, which had been hit in an Israeli air strike.
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Cora Engelbrecht, New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2026
Shortly after, his organization announced he had been killed in an air strike.
—Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 20 Mar. 2026
According to Iskandar Barakeh, the mayor of Mashghara, two of Ghazali's brothers, and a niece and a nephew, died in an Israeli air strike earlier this month.
—Odette Yousef, NPR, 19 Mar. 2026
Over 400 people were killed and 250 injured in an air strike by Pakistan on a drug rehabilitation hospital in Kabul, a spokesman of the Afghan Taliban government said on Tuesday, a sharp escalation in the conflict between the neighbours.
—Mohammad Yunus Yawar, USA Today, 17 Mar. 2026
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Cora Engelbrecht, New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2026
Shortly after, his organization announced he had been killed in an air strike.
—Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 20 Mar. 2026
According to Iskandar Barakeh, the mayor of Mashghara, two of Ghazali's brothers, and a niece and a nephew, died in an Israeli air strike earlier this month.
—Odette Yousef, NPR, 19 Mar. 2026
Over 400 people were killed and 250 injured in an air strike by Pakistan on a drug rehabilitation hospital in Kabul, a spokesman of the Afghan Taliban government said on Tuesday, a sharp escalation in the conflict between the neighbours.
—Mohammad Yunus Yawar, USA Today, 17 Mar. 2026
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“Air strike.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/air%20strike. Accessed 28 Mar. 2026.
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