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targets

noun as in aim, goal

noun as in person as object of ridicule

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In their past calls for attacks on Western targets, AQAP has focused on putting bombs on planes, not revenge attacks.

But if you listen to our leaders, they weren't the real targets here.

Where these laser-like missiles are falling out of the sky onto a city and you have to stop each of them from hitting the targets?

The current attack on the Jews,” he wrote in a 1937 essay, “targets not just this people of 15 million but mankind as such.

The bailout crybabies of Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo, and all the rest are easy targets—and deserving ones, too.

Most Korean gentlemen had private archery grounds and targets in the gardens near their houses.

Light round targets were brought them, and in the place of pointed lances, long brittle reeds.

All along the beaches, and inland too, no end of our men were on the move, offering fine targets.

Surely if I can hit such little targets as sparrows I should not miss rabbits if they are of mortal breed.

Only too well did Frank realize that he must seek human targets for his bullets.

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On this page you'll find 27 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to targets, such as: object, point, destination, spot, mark, and purpose.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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