bomb squad

noun

: a group of people who have the job of preventing bombs from causing damage or injury

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Police deployed a bomb squad with an explosive disposal robot to the square in the heart of Brazilian capital to investigate the blasts. Reuters, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2024 Last year, Mbappe was one of them when he was dumped into what is called the ‘loft’ in France — a group of undesirables akin to what is known as the ‘bomb squad’ in English football. Peter Rutzler, The Athletic, 20 July 2024 Hopper, who died in May 2010 at the age of 74 from prostate cancer, played the film’s antagonist Howard Payne, a retired bomb squad officer who goes toe-to-toe with Keanu Reeves’ Los Angeles police officer Jack Traven. Jessica Wang, EW.com, 12 Oct. 2024 The department’s bomb squad unit also searched the court, McGuire’s car and his house for any other possible explosive devices. Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for bomb squad 

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“Bomb squad.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bomb%20squad. Accessed 7 Dec. 2024.

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