Thesaurus results for BOMBER

bomber

noun

Definition of bomber

as in warplane

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Recent Examples of bomber Military flyovers The event included multiple military flyovers, featuring aircraft such as the F-16 Viper Demo Team, B-2 Spirit stealth bomber and F-35A Lightning II. — Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 25 June 2026 Under Paris’ blistering 103-degree heat this week, Rami Malek defiantly sported a leather bomber and Pharrell Williams’ effortless cool chilled down whole city blocks. — Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026 As the national anthem was sung, a group of bomber planes flew overhead. — Andrew Greif, NBC news, 20 June 2026 In 1961, the Soviet Union conducted similar experiments aboard a modified Tupolev TU-95 bomber. — Geoff Brumfiel, NPR, 18 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for bomber

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Noun

Five years ago, Russia said one of its warships fired warning shots and a warplane dropped bombs in the Black Sea to force the British destroyer HMS Defender out of an area near Crimea that Moscow claimed as its territorial waters.

— ABC News, ABC News, 16 June 2026
The modern stadium spectacle is rife with enormous flags, salutes to service members, and flyovers by supersonic warplanes.

— Sally Jenkins, The Atlantic, 11 June 2026

Definition of warplane

Noun

But for each Russian innovation — first-person-view vehicles, jet power, fiber-optic tethers — Ukraine has developed countermeasures.

— David L. Stern, Washington Post, 17 July 2026
Across the first two weeks of the tournament alone, Infantino reportedly logged more than 20,000 miles of air travel, zigzagging the continent aboard a private jet.

— Tom Kludt, Vanity Fair, 17 July 2026

Definition of jet

Noun

His plane of choice hasn't changed – the TBM Avenger, the Navy's main torpedo bomber during World War II, particularly in the Pacific theater.

— Noel Brennan, CBS News, 15 May 2026
Several hundred aircraft would assemble, including dive bombers, torpedo bombers and fighter planes, such as the P38 Lightnings, F4F Wildcats, F6F Hellcats, F4U Corsairs and P-40 Warhawks.

— Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Aug. 2023

Definition of torpedo bomber

Noun

And Germany’s air force chief said the country will need to keep buying weapons like fighter jets from the US amid Russian aggression.

— J.D. Capelouto, semafor.com, 15 July 2026
Despite some small wins at the height of the movement, what conservative populists wanted, more than anything, was a fighter.

— David M. Drucker, Mercury News, 15 July 2026

Definition of fighter

Noun

Virgin decided to move on to the Delta-class program after completing 12 flights to the edge of space—above 80 km or 50 miles, as defined by the US government—with the previous-generation VSS Unity rocket plane.

— Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 1 May 2026
These lower operating expenses are tied to Virgin Galactic's decision to suspend operations of its VSS Unity suborbital rocket plane last year to focus investment into a new series of suborbital spacecraft known as Delta-class ships.

— Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 28 Feb. 2025

Definition of rocket plane

Noun

The researchers suspect that harvestmen may target strategic regions of the amphibian's body, thereby significantly restricting the frog's movements.

— Jay Kakade July 13, New Atlas, 14 July 2026
In addition to environmental education and advocacy, the center’s mission includes propagating rare and endangered native plants and rehabilitating birds of prey, reptiles and amphibians.

— AJ Willingham, AJC.com, 24 June 2026

Definition of amphibian

Noun

The airline operates a small fleet of Embraer E175 and E190 jetliners, smaller planes with no middle seats.

— David Lyons, Sun Sentinel, 3 June 2026
As expected, the ship—wider than and nearly as long a Boeing 777 jetliner—tipped over and exploded in a fireball, putting an exclamation point on V3’s trip halfway around the world from the Texas Gulf Coast.

— Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 23 May 2026

Definition of jetliner

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