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Recent Examples of projectile
After raising his hands on the porch while turning away from police, one of the officers fired a less-lethal projectile that hit him in the head, requiring stitches.
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Nathaniel Percy, Oc Register, 30 Dec. 2025
More than five minutes after Ellis had collapsed, someone in the background could be heard ordering officers to fire a less-lethal projectile at him.
—Jose R. Gonzalez, AZCentral.com, 13 Dec. 2025
Other projectile powers satisfy in and out of combat, like the ice shot that extinguishes fires and freezes foes in their tracks.
—PC Magazine, 2 Dec. 2025
Not all scientists are convinced that the mysterious projectile came from space.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 3 Nov. 2025
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Nathaniel Percy, Oc Register, 30 Dec. 2025
More than five minutes after Ellis had collapsed, someone in the background could be heard ordering officers to fire a less-lethal projectile at him.
—Jose R. Gonzalez, AZCentral.com, 13 Dec. 2025
Other projectile powers satisfy in and out of combat, like the ice shot that extinguishes fires and freezes foes in their tracks.
—PC Magazine, 2 Dec. 2025
Not all scientists are convinced that the mysterious projectile came from space.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 3 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for projectile
Noun
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The lawsuit was filed by the mother of Chad Joseph and the sister of Rishi Samaroo, two Trinidadian nationals who were among six people killed in an October 14 missile strike on a boat traveling from Venezuela to Trinidad.—
Eric Tucker,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Jan. 2026
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The president posted a short video that day on social media that shows a missile targeting a ship, which erupts in flame.—
Carrie Johnson,
NPR,
27 Jan. 2026
Noun
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According to Safavi, Ebrahimi was shot with live ammunition by Iran’s security forces during protests against the clerical regime.—
Emma Bussey,
FOXNews.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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No one’s private health records should be turned into political ammunition — especially children.—
City News Service,
Daily News,
26 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Guo says the approach can be scaled up to much larger sizes suitable for load-bearing platforms.—
Sujita Sinha,
Interesting Engineering,
28 Jan. 2026
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There are loads of cool details hidden throughout the set, too, with refuelling pipes and a moving bridge that connects the tower to the Orion module.—
Ian Stokes,
Space.com,
28 Jan. 2026
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Her image as an onstage bad girl was weaponized against her, with fans threatening her life at concerts, leaving at one point shotgun shells on the stage during Hole performances, referring to the manner of Cobain’s death.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
30 Jan. 2026
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Raw shell eggs were improperly stored above the vegetables.—
Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado
January 30,
Sacbee.com,
30 Jan. 2026
Noun
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There's a celebration for cannonball on Dec. 13, when Bella Terra's horses join Santa for a special event.—
Kristine Sorensen,
CBS News,
20 Nov. 2025
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Reprise, his 2006 cannonball of a debut, centers on two aspiring, competitive writers.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
7 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Its gritty texture helps repel pests like slugs and snails from your garden.—
Natalia Gonzalez Blanco Serrano,
The Spruce,
25 Jan. 2026
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Garden snakes have important roles in your landscape, eating insects and invertebrates such as slugs and providing food for birds of prey such as hawks and owls.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
19 Jan. 2026
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His 134 men were armed with musket, cartridge pouch, and sword in case of a hostile encounter, and the Africaansche Galey lay close by with a couple of small cannon brought forward on the bow.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Jan. 2026
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Projections of new optical storage archiving systems promise 1PB raw capacity optical cartridges by the 2030’s, compared to the possible 365TB raw capacity cartridge projections for LTO Gen 14.—
Thomas Coughlin,
Forbes.com,
21 Jan. 2026
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“Projectile.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/projectile. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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