Thesaurus results for SUBMARINES

submarines

noun

plural of submarine

as in torpedoes

a large sandwich on a long split roll always orders a roast beef submarine with the works

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Recent Examples of submarines The 414-foot Lürssen wasn’t a floating palace like most of the world’s largest yachts before it, but an expedition ship disguised as a superyacht, complete with submarines, helipads, a drive-in marina, and research capabilities. — Robb Report, 9 Oct. 2026 Quantum sensors provide atomic clocks and inertial tracking for submarines, aircraft, and satellites, while the same technology is used to find oil and gas deposits. — David S. Cohen, Foreign Affairs, 8 Oct. 2026 The exercise is designed not simply to test individual units, but to examine how ships, aircraft, submarines, commandos and specialist forces can operate as a coordinated multinational force. — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 7 Oct. 2026 The development is the largest job-creation project in Maryland in more than ten years and will build components of nuclear submarines and support the Navy's mission. — Mike Hellgren, CBS News, 7 Oct. 2026 Advanced blue-green optical communications penetrate the water column to communicate with submerged submarines without requiring them to deploy compromise-prone antennas. — Rohit Jha, Forbes.com, 1 Oct. 2026 If recently commissioned Virginia class submarines are added, the attack fleet reaches 52 ships as opposed to the 44 cited in the GAO study. — Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 28 Sep. 2026 Italy is seeking deals on submarines and aircraft, and gifting the carrier to Indonesia also saves it the cost of decommissioning the ship. — ABC News, 24 Sep. 2026 By removing all the crew spaces, controls, and support equipment, robotic submarines can be made much smaller, compact, and retain many of the same capabilities. — New Atlas, 24 Sep. 2026

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Noun

Missiles and drones launched from corvettes can disable ships by hitting them above the surface, and torpedoes launched from submarines can sink them.

— HOLMES LIAO, Foreign Affairs, 4 Sep. 2026
According to Congressional Research Service data, the submarine can carry about 37 torpedo-sized weapons, including Tomahawk missiles and Mk 48 torpedoes, although the exact weapons carried during the deployment remain classified.

— Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 5 Aug. 2026

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And YouTube has 250 kids channels with over 10 million subs and a 300,000 hour total across videos, shorts and livestream of which 80% are pre-school channels.

— John Hopewell, Variety, 10 Oct. 2026
Boosted by Heated Rivalry, Crave recorded just over 5 million subs in Bell’s most recent results, and is eyeing 6 million by end of 2028, but Cohan is thinking beyond that.

— Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2026

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And even within a game, there are heroes and there are villains, and there’s conflict.

— Brian Steinberg, Variety, 14 Oct. 2026
At the top of the long staircase leading to the studio, next to a neon Mockler Media sign, is a photo of Mockler with one of his heroes, Barack Obama.

— Edward Robert McClelland, Chicago Tribune, 13 Oct. 2026

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