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Recent Examples of submarines
The Navy’s fleet of 16 E-6B aircraft was working under the TACOMO (take charge and move out) plan, which, although similar to Looking Glass, was focused on relaying orders to the country’s nuclear submarines.
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Abhishek Bhardwaj, Interesting Engineering, 27 Jan. 2026
Anduril is developing new defense technologies that include drones, missiles, robotic submarines, and autonomous fighter jets.
—Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2026
There are Russian submarines all over the place.
—Laura Doan, CBS News, 21 Jan. 2026
The Navy regularly briefs Courtney on classified matters in his position as ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee’s Seapower subcommittee, which oversees the country’s top defense priority, the Columba ballistic missile submarines built by Electric Boat in Groton.
—Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 18 Jan. 2026
The outcome of that conflict was in large part due to the ability of NATO to track Soviet submarines and to keep their missile boats penned up in the Arctic Ocean.
—New Atlas, 18 Jan. 2026
Militarily, Humpert is quick to point out that China and Russia have more ships and submarines traveling near Alaska’s coast than Greenland’s ice.
—Jordan Blum, Fortune, 17 Jan. 2026
The base is the largest Navy installation in the Pacific and routinely dispatches surface ships and submarines to the Indo-Pacific and the Middle East.
—Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Jan. 2026
The highly accurate Tomahawks can be fired from US Navy submarines and surface ships well off Iranian shores, minimizing the risk of US casualties.
—Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 14 Jan. 2026
Abhishek Bhardwaj, Interesting Engineering, 27 Jan. 2026
Anduril is developing new defense technologies that include drones, missiles, robotic submarines, and autonomous fighter jets.
—Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2026
There are Russian submarines all over the place.
—Laura Doan, CBS News, 21 Jan. 2026
The Navy regularly briefs Courtney on classified matters in his position as ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee’s Seapower subcommittee, which oversees the country’s top defense priority, the Columba ballistic missile submarines built by Electric Boat in Groton.
—Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 18 Jan. 2026
The outcome of that conflict was in large part due to the ability of NATO to track Soviet submarines and to keep their missile boats penned up in the Arctic Ocean.
—New Atlas, 18 Jan. 2026
Militarily, Humpert is quick to point out that China and Russia have more ships and submarines traveling near Alaska’s coast than Greenland’s ice.
—Jordan Blum, Fortune, 17 Jan. 2026
The base is the largest Navy installation in the Pacific and routinely dispatches surface ships and submarines to the Indo-Pacific and the Middle East.
—Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Jan. 2026
The highly accurate Tomahawks can be fired from US Navy submarines and surface ships well off Iranian shores, minimizing the risk of US casualties.
—Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 14 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for submarines
Noun
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Two big fish shot by like titanium torpedoes.—
Susan Casey,
Travel + Leisure,
10 Jan. 2026
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China’s new underwater drone toys The drones are likely intended to be armed with conventional submarine armaments like mines and torpedoes, but could also act as motherships for other drones, too.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
14 Dec. 2025
Noun
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Inside my briefcase was a fat folder that contained all my material takeoffs, the bids from subs, and a dot-matrix printout of a basic spreadsheet showing all of the costs, along with the total cost.—
Tim Carter,
Hartford Courant,
24 Jan. 2026
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That’s up from 301 million subs at the end of 2024.—
David Bloom,
Forbes.com,
21 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The late Jim Hudson played some quarterback at Texas in the early 1960s and was one of several heroes in the New York Jets’ upset of the Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III.—
Cedric Golden,
Austin American Statesman,
23 Jan. 2026
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Denim heroes of the past and future are coming to New York—or, at least, to Soorty’s SpaceD creative hub and showroom in Manhattan.—
Alexandra Harrell,
Sourcing Journal,
23 Jan. 2026
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“Submarines.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/submarines. Accessed 28 Jan. 2026.
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