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Recent Examples of ordnance
What salvage crews did bring up was ordnance.
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Linda Dudik, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Dec. 2025
Which innovations are actually reshaping explosive ordnance disposal and demilitarisation work in a meaningful way, and where does the hype still exceed reality?
—Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 28 Nov. 2025
Decades of bombing left Vieques littered with unexploded ordnance and contaminated with heavy metals.
—Israel Melendez Ayala, Time, 10 Nov. 2025
If successful, the city shouldn’t have any violations of the irrigation ordnance by this time next year, Harder said, emphasizing the cutoffs would only be for irrigation, not indoor usage.
—Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Nov. 2025
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Linda Dudik, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Dec. 2025
Which innovations are actually reshaping explosive ordnance disposal and demilitarisation work in a meaningful way, and where does the hype still exceed reality?
—Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 28 Nov. 2025
Decades of bombing left Vieques littered with unexploded ordnance and contaminated with heavy metals.
—Israel Melendez Ayala, Time, 10 Nov. 2025
If successful, the city shouldn’t have any violations of the irrigation ordnance by this time next year, Harder said, emphasizing the cutoffs would only be for irrigation, not indoor usage.
—Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ordnance
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Officers in a helicopter located the car at an undisclosed location in South San Jose and with guns deployed, pulled over the driver and arrested him there.—
Rick Hurd,
Mercury News,
15 Jan. 2026
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Across California, and the nation, citizens and noncitizens alike have reported being beaten and harassed, having guns pointed at them without provocation and being detained without basic rights for days.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Jan. 2026
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When Israel launched the surprise war against Iran last summer, the depth of its infiltration became evident when it was revealed that Israeli intelligence agents smuggled weapons into the country and used them to strike high-value targets from within Iranian territory.—
Mostafa Salem,
CNN Money,
7 Jan. 2026
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Ole Miss has enough dangerous weapons in quarterback Trinidad Chambliss, running back Kewan Lacy and wide receivers Harrison Wallace III, De’Zhaun Stribling and Deuce Alexander to make a tired defense pay.—
Jordan McPherson,
Miami Herald,
7 Jan. 2026
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“Ordnance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ordnance. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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