air strike
noun
: an attack in which military airplanes drop bombs
The strategy calls for air strikes on key targets.
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Five years later, under President Obama, another air strike hit another wedding party, this time in Yemen, killing 12 more people.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates, Vanity Fair, 15 June 2026
An American air strike on a PMF command headquarters in al-Anbar province killed 15 fighters; and another strike on an adjacent military base in al-Habbaniyah, which also houses a paramilitary camp, killed seven soldiers and wounded 13.
—Nabil Salih, Time, 26 May 2026
Stories harmful to Israel—false claims that Israel caused a famine as a weapon of war, or that an Israeli air strike destroyed a Gazan hospital—are reported credulously and corrected slowly, if at all.
—David Frum, The Atlantic, 21 May 2026
Zahra was one of at least twenty-four people who were killed in the Israeli air strike on the Hamad Building.
—Rania Abouzeid, New Yorker, 21 May 2026
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Ta-Nehisi Coates, Vanity Fair, 15 June 2026
An American air strike on a PMF command headquarters in al-Anbar province killed 15 fighters; and another strike on an adjacent military base in al-Habbaniyah, which also houses a paramilitary camp, killed seven soldiers and wounded 13.
—Nabil Salih, Time, 26 May 2026
Stories harmful to Israel—false claims that Israel caused a famine as a weapon of war, or that an Israeli air strike destroyed a Gazan hospital—are reported credulously and corrected slowly, if at all.
—David Frum, The Atlantic, 21 May 2026
Zahra was one of at least twenty-four people who were killed in the Israeli air strike on the Hamad Building.
—Rania Abouzeid, New Yorker, 21 May 2026
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“Air strike.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/air%20strike. Accessed 19 Jun. 2026.
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