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Recent Examples of airburstBut previous experience from WWII shows just how effective this type of airburst weapon is.—David Hambling, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024 Tall el-Hammam may have been destroyed by a massive cosmic airburst and may have been the biblical Sodom.—Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Jan. 2022 However, some astronomers wonder if these accounts describe a Tunguska-style airburst that leveled a city.—Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 28 May 2020 North Korea’s military simulated a nuclear airburst with two tactical ballistic missiles equipped with mock warheads during Monday’s training, while testing a nuclear-capable underwater attack drone again on March 25-27, KCNA said in separate dispatches.—Reuters, NBC News, 28 Mar. 2023 See All Example Sentences for airburst
Already, cask investment companies are using the headlines to promote whisky casks as a safe investment, suggesting the tariff cut marks the start of a new export boom into India.
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Mark Littler,
Forbes.com,
8 May 2025
That includes ensuring that booms on hydraulic cranes are retracted, tower cranes are set in a weathervane position and all power at the base of cranes is disconnected ahead of a storm.
If the people who are protesting the firing don’t like our government, desiring its overthrow and institution of socialism, they are encouraged to change their hearts and remain here or welcome to leave and find a nation governed to their liking.
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Letters to the Editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
17 May 2025
To say that the firing of Dr. Hayden — executed with the Trumpian flair for erasure — was merely political is to miss the deeper insult.
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