: a canister of small individual bombs that is dropped from an aircraft
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Image For decades, many European pension funds prohibited direct investments in arms manufacturers that produce weapons like cluster bombs, chemical, nuclear and biological weapons, and mines.—Lara Jakes, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2025 Under some conditions, Varma can now consider investing in such a manufacturer if, for example, the controversial weapons such as cluster bombs account for no more than 5 percent of sales.—Lara Jakes, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2025 That’s what happened before as a result of failures at the CCW to deal with landmines in the 1990s and cluster bombs in the 2000s.—IEEE Spectrum, 14 Apr. 2016 Campbell, a University of Colorado grad who lives in Ridgway, faced other kinds of potentially fatal risks beyond his control — cluster bombs, missiles, artillery fire — on multiple trips to Ukraine since 2022 as a conflict journalist.—John Meyer, Denver Post, 25 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for cluster bomb
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