calibers

variants or calibres
plural of caliber

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Recent Examples of calibers The advantage, Gezen told defense officials, is that the same equipment could produce shells of various calibers. Jesse Coburn, ProPublica, 12 Aug. 2026 Look Beyond Switzerland—and Beyond the Movement Modern enthusiasts often obsess over calibers, but Newman argues that collectors should approach 18th-century watches as works of decorative art as much as feats of engineering. Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 3 July 2026 The scalable design also gives KNDS room to introduce larger calibers in the future, should battlefield requirements change. Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 20 June 2026 Police recovered 95 spent shell casings from the roadway, representing multiple calibers. Richard Ramos, CBS News, 16 Apr. 2026 Relaunched in 2024 with a time-only configuration, the collection now expands to embrace haute horlogerie complications with four new calibers and five additions to the permanent collection. Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 19 Jan. 2026 It was buried inside a shipping container alongside a silencer, an Uzi submachine gun and tens of thousands of bullets of different calibers. Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 7 Jan. 2026 Smaller rounds can descend at about 300 feet per second, while larger calibers can fall at speeds near 500 feet per second. Jade Jackson, IndyStar, 30 Dec. 2025 Antetokounmpo and Turner are two different calibers. Justin Grasso, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for calibers
Noun
  • The outlier remains the United States, where gun violence and rates of mass shootings are among the highest in the world, with little progress made on tighter laws in the face of strong lobbying and constitutional protections.
    Kocha Olarn, CNN Money, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Prices were roughly double 2025 rates, according to data group Lighthouse Intelligence.
    ABC News, ABC News, 12 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • But these technical qualities only throw into relief the plastic, uncanny-valley feel of the characters whizzing about this latter-day Skull Island.
    Caspar Salmon, Variety, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Those qualities don’t usually make it into rom-coms like this one, about the relationship between Monica Barbaro’s commercial-jingle singer Allie and Callum Turner’s pizza-shop owner Owen.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 7 Aug. 2026

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“Calibers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/calibers. Accessed 14 Aug. 2026.

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