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also poor boys
as in submarines
a large sandwich on a long split roll
ordered a fried catfish po'boy
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Noun
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Even with large battery banks, diesel-electric submarines eventually need to recharge.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
9 Feb. 2026 -
Autonomous robotic submarines are very much in fashion as naval planners work on future strategies in which underwater drones play a key part in patrolling and monitoring the world's oceans.—
David Szondy
February 09,
New Atlas,
9 Feb. 2026
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Hume became one of modern atheism’s great intellectual heroes by rejecting this idea.—
Christopher Beha,
New Yorker,
14 Feb. 2026
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Without giving anything away, the scale of the sequence in which the heroes finally confront the AI force that threatens to destroy them is massive, and lighting and planning shots for the enormous set — which had the largest LED installation ever built in South Africa — required 600 storyboards.—
Jim Hemphill,
IndieWire,
12 Feb. 2026
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“Po'boys.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/po%27boys. Accessed 17 Feb. 2026.
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