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Recent Examples of projectileSome key finds were a 4,500-year-old projectile point, animal bones in fireplaces that revealed the soldiers’ diet, and lead drippings from a task usually assigned to the women of the encampments: pouring lead into molds to create musket balls.—Pamela Brown, Hartford Courant, 18 Mar. 2025 That means materials like tungsten to make the projectiles more lethal as well as advanced sensors and guidance systems that can react in real time.—New Atlas, 23 Apr. 2025 The space projectile was later identified as a remnant of a battery pallet thrown out of the International Space Station three years earlier.—Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 14 Apr. 2025 Meanwhile, officials are racing to secure loose barriers, portable toilets and other items that could become dangerous projectiles in strong winds.—Mary Gilbert, CNN, 3 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for projectile
Having an unquestionably talented scorer like Ogunbowale (22.2 points per game in 2024) will help ease the load off Paige Bueckers, who averaged 19.9 points per game in her senior season at UConn.
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Kilty Cleary,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 May 2025
In Singapore, a skyscraper adapts to monsoon winds, shifting the HVAC load to avoid structural strain.
The [Spot for cannonballs] could be inside a cannon, but that’s too obvious for a Friday.
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Deb Amlen,
New York Times,
21 Mar. 2025
The rocket reaches a velocity of over 2,200 mph, or close to Mach 3, on the way up, plunges back through the atmosphere like a cannonball after a few minutes of weightlessness, and depends on a parachute to bring the passengers home safely—not the kind of chances every traveler would want to take.
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