minesweeper
noun
mine·sweep·er
ˈmīn-ˌswē-pər 
: a warship for removing or neutralizing mines by dragging
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At around midnight on a winter night in 2023, Omar, a then 21-year-old member of a group of Afghan minesweepers tasked with protecting Green Berets in the region, heard a knock on his door.
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Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 6 May 2025
Early last week, NATO's Baltic Sentry mission consisted of three ships: German minesweeper FGS Datteln, Dutch frigate HNLMS Tromp and Dutch hydrographic survey vessel HNLMS Luymes.
—Sarah Dean, CNN, 27 Jan. 2025
What To Know Japanese minesweeper tender JS Bungo and minesweeper JS Etajima arrived at Ream Naval Base in Cambodia's southwestern province of Sihanoukville on the coast of the Gulf of Thailand on Saturday.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Apr. 2025
Undersea cable would supply clean electricity from the Caucasus
Turkish minesweeper ships look for drifting mines in the Black Sea.
—IEEE Spectrum, 12 Mar. 2025
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Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 6 May 2025
Early last week, NATO's Baltic Sentry mission consisted of three ships: German minesweeper FGS Datteln, Dutch frigate HNLMS Tromp and Dutch hydrographic survey vessel HNLMS Luymes.
—Sarah Dean, CNN, 27 Jan. 2025
What To Know Japanese minesweeper tender JS Bungo and minesweeper JS Etajima arrived at Ream Naval Base in Cambodia's southwestern province of Sihanoukville on the coast of the Gulf of Thailand on Saturday.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Apr. 2025
Undersea cable would supply clean electricity from the Caucasus
Turkish minesweeper ships look for drifting mines in the Black Sea.
—IEEE Spectrum, 12 Mar. 2025
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minesweeper
noun
mine·sweep·er
ˈmīn-ˌswē-pər
: a warship for removing or destroying mines
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