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Recent Examples of submarines
Until Hoxha's break with Nikita Khrushchev's USSR, after the abjuration of Stalinism, Sazan was in Soviet hands, a thorn in the side of the West, a base for 12 Whiskey-class submarines and of chemical-biological weapons plants.
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Marzio G. Mian, Vanity Fair, 16 June 2026
In modern submarines, such systems collect sonar information, track targets, and calculate firing solutions.
—Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 14 June 2026
The Navy also uses Port Canaveral for several vessels including nuclear submarines.
—Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 June 2026
Everyone expected bombing, submarines, battleships, and all hell to break loose at any moment.
—Robert McGreevy, FOXNews.com, 6 June 2026
Marzio G. Mian, Vanity Fair, 16 June 2026
In modern submarines, such systems collect sonar information, track targets, and calculate firing solutions.
—Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 14 June 2026
The Navy also uses Port Canaveral for several vessels including nuclear submarines.
—Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 June 2026
Everyone expected bombing, submarines, battleships, and all hell to break loose at any moment.
—Robert McGreevy, FOXNews.com, 6 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for submarines
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Such exercises are critical for evaluating the real-world performance of weapons like torpedoes, as only so much can be learned from computer modelling.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
14 June 2026
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Loosed of the wartime imperative to manufacture anti-aircraft guns and submarine torpedoes, factories were free to make bone-rattling dishwashers and mint-colored refrigerators.—
Caity Weaver,
The Atlantic,
12 June 2026
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Substitutions brought fresh life to Switzerland's team in the second half, and those subs scored three goals in a matter of minutes — two by Johan Manzambi and one by Rubén Vargas.—
Andrew Greif,
NBC news,
19 June 2026
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This seemingly futuristic idea drew on his Navy experience with water-splitting electrolyzers, which supplied the oxygen that enabled subs to remain submerged for months at a time, and NASA’s use of hydrogen fuel cells to power the Apollo missions.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
15 June 2026
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As the inscription had been damaged, researchers couldn’t decipher whether this tablet had cursed four slaves or whether four slaves had cried out to the Egyptian gods and demi-heroes, who knows?—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
20 June 2026
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Look, Letterman is one of my all-time comedy heroes.—
Michael Schneider,
Variety,
19 June 2026
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“Submarines.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/submarines. Accessed 22 Jun. 2026.
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