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aircraft carrier

noun as in large warship

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Some of us are sitting on aircraft carriers while others are just bobbing along on a floatie.

Just know that changing the school district is like turning an aircraft carrier.

From Time

She said she was 17 when she first took the oath to “defend the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic” and had done that by serving on aircraft carriers in the Middle East, launching strikes against terrorist targets.

I’ve sailed through the Suez Canal many times—as a junior officer, a captain of a destroyer, a commodore in command of a group of destroyers, and as a strike group commander on the nuclear aircraft carrier Enterprise.

From Time

Following graduation in 1971, Combs served in the US Navy for a period that included two tours on an aircraft carrier in combat waters off Vietnam.

The U.S.S. George H.W. Bush, a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, has been dispatched to the Persian Gulf.

And maybe that video of George W. Bush strutting around on an aircraft carrier in his flight suit.

On Thursday, the relief effort intensified with the arrival of an American aircraft carrier group just offshore.

He spoke as the US Navy said that its aircraft carrier the USS George Washington arrived to help the relief effort.

That dance does more harm to the Republic than an aircraft carrier full of Randy “Duke” Cunninghams ever could.

Next day an aircraft carrier put out of Naples with an escort of destroyers.

Ill be ready to sail in a month or two, on an aircraft carrier.

Minutes later, the two boys embarked in a motor launch that took them to an aircraft carrier standing by in the vicinity.

They were met by bombs from every plane the aircraft carrier could muster and from thirty land bombers as well.

The speedy aircraft carrier seemed to fairly leap along, carrying her home to America.

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On this page you'll find 6 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to aircraft carrier, such as: carrier, warship, attack aircraft carrier, and flattop.

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