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Recent Examples of projectile
Whether the object is a defunct satellite or a stray hunk of glass from a solar panel that shattered long ago, every item circling Earth is also a potential projectile.
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IEEE Spectrum, 30 Sep. 2025
Battery as a projectile The demonstration was captured in a viral video on Chinese social media.
—Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 25 Sep. 2025
The Survivor 49 premiere featured a bromance for the ages, projectile vomit, and a contestant scared of birds.
—Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Sep. 2025
That horrible mistake reveals itself several scenes later when Katie projectile vomits into her windshield.
—Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2025
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IEEE Spectrum, 30 Sep. 2025
Battery as a projectile The demonstration was captured in a viral video on Chinese social media.
—Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 25 Sep. 2025
The Survivor 49 premiere featured a bromance for the ages, projectile vomit, and a contestant scared of birds.
—Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Sep. 2025
That horrible mistake reveals itself several scenes later when Katie projectile vomits into her windshield.
—Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for projectile
Noun
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The weapons of the Hwasong-11 series are short-range ballistic missiles (SRBM) based on Russia’s Iskander missiles, which have seen extensive use in Moscow’s devastating strikes across Ukraine.—
Brad Lendon,
CNN Money,
11 Oct. 2025
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No one can pinpoint the origin of the missile, so how can anyone calculate blame?—
Antonia Blyth,
Deadline,
10 Oct. 2025
Noun
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In 2014, an explosion occurred at another ammunition facility in the same small community, killing one person and injuring at least three others.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
12 Oct. 2025
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The blast, in the back of a building used for shotgun ammunition, caused severe damage.—
Isabel Rosales,
CNN Money,
11 Oct. 2025
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CargoNet's Lewis said sometimes freight companies do not know a load of goods is stolen until weeks, months or even a year later.—
Chelsea Torres,
FOXNews.com,
10 Oct. 2025
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This growing load could lead to voltage fluctuations, outages, and system disruptions during peak charging hours.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
10 Oct. 2025
Noun
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At the present moment, the Big Ten’s mostly public universities are nearing a deal to take $2 billion from an outside investor (a pension fund in California) in return for a slice of equity in what would essentially be a new shell company to house the league’s media and sponsorship businesses.—
Stewart Mandel,
New York Times,
12 Oct. 2025
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Scoop pastry cream into the baked pie shell, and use a spoon or offset spatula to smooth.—
Stephanie Ganz,
Southern Living,
12 Oct. 2025
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The brilliant alchemy of narrative threads from myth, literature, and local gossip enabled my father to hit a watery nerve with the splash of an exuberant cannonball.—
Susan Cheever,
Vogue,
29 Sep. 2025
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Kelly went next, frantically waving her arms before finishing in a cannonball.—
David Wright Faladé,
New Yorker,
28 Sep. 2025
Noun
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California has 42 official state symbols after Governor Newsom signed three bills to create new symbols in 2024, including the Dungeness crab as the state crustacean, the banana slug as the state slug, and the black abalone as the state seashell.—
Martha McHardy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Oct. 2025
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Some swimming snails have lost their protective shells (more like swimming slugs), while others retain them.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
25 Sep. 2025
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Each bottle of ink and each toner cartridge has a page-yield rating, based on test pages developed by the International Organization for Standards (ISO).—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
30 Sep. 2025
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On the real hardware, this snippet ended up disabling half the cartridge’s memory.—
Stephen Cass,
IEEE Spectrum,
28 Sep. 2025
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“Projectile.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/projectile. Accessed 15 Oct. 2025.
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