bomber

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Recent Examples of bomber Here’s everything to know about what happened to the Boston Marathon bombers and where Dzhokhar is now, 12 years after the fatal attack. Emily Blackwood, People.com, 15 Apr. 2025 The bombers are based at Whiteman Air Base in Missouri and typically conduct long-range strikes from there. Arkansas Online, 3 Apr. 2025 The iPhone 16e can use Apple Intelligence to summarize text, generate images and remove photo bombers from pictures. Brian X. Chen, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2025 The combined presence of the Carl Vinson, the Harry S. Truman, and B-2 stealth bombers stationed at Diego Garcia dramatically enhances the U.S.'s ability to carry out air and missile strikes, heightening the potential for wider military action. John W. Dean, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for bomber
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Noun
  • The United States has moved additional warplanes into the region.
    Guy Faulconbridge and Parisa Hafezi, USA Today, 18 Apr. 2025
  • China has delivered additional warplanes and drones to the junta to abet this effort.
    Ye Myo Hein, Foreign Affairs, 17 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The jet was assigned to Strike Fighter Squadron 136.
    Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 29 Apr. 2025
  • The two airman inside the jet were said to have escaped safely.
    Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 29 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The three-bedroom, four-bathroom house stretches more than 300 feet across Lake Washington’s waterfront has a dock that supports boats and seaplanes.
    Shannon Carroll, Quartz, 16 Apr. 2025
  • For one thing, the woodsy spread rests along 300 feet of water frontage on the eastern shores of Lake Washington and boasts a nearly 2,200-square-foot dock that can accommodate boats and seaplanes.
    Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 15 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Before becoming the 41st U.S. President, George H. W. Bush received training on the Avenger TBF/TBM torpedo bomber at NAS Ft. Lauderdale from June 16 to Aug. 16, 1943.
    Lauren Ferrer, Sun Sentinel, 3 July 2024
  • 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
Noun
  • The two fought on competing networks (Stevenson only wanted to fight on Showtime; Kovalev was an HBO fighter), and no deal could ever be made.
    Josh Katzowitz, Forbes.com, 29 Apr. 2025
  • As public anger over the clip grew, fighters in armored vehicles amassed overnight outside Jaramana and began shelling the city, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a war monitoring group based in Britain.
    Euan Ward, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Ambitious short film chronicles daring flight of X-15 rocket plane test pilot (video) Going to SXSW 2025?
    Jeff Spry, Space.com, 8 Mar. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • The scientists removed a gene that controls the production of thyroxine, a hormone that regulates the amphibians’ metamorphosis.
    Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Apr. 2025
  • But instead of controlling destructive sugar cane beetle populations, the amphibians quickly became their own ecological catastrophe.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 10 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • On January 29, a commercial jetliner and an Army helicopter collided near the nation's capital, resulting in 67 fatalities.
    Justin Gest, Newsweek, 11 Feb. 2025
  • There were also two fatal crashes involving Boeing’s troubled 737 Max jetliner in 2018 and 2019.
    Josh Funk, Chicago Tribune, 9 Feb. 2025

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“Bomber.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bomber. Accessed 4 May. 2025.

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