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battleship

[bat-l-ship] / ˈbæt lˌʃɪp /
NOUN
warship
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The US has deployed another battleship to relieve the Lincoln, which should arrive in the Middle East in another week.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

The Lockerbie bombing came five months after 290 people were killed when an Iranian commercial airliner was shot down by a US battleship.

From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026

The battleship was supplanted as king of the seas in the 1940s by the aircraft carrier.

From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026

“I think the battleship is sort of an exogenous introduction that reflects, you know, what Secretary Phelan and the president wanted to do, rather than what the analysis shows,” Clark said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026

She stood at the kitchen window and held them up to her eyes as if she were the captain on the bridge of a battleship.

From "Dead End in Norvelt" by Jack Gantos

However, Woodburn said there was still a role for the traditional battleships and submarines that BAE has been manufacturing for decades.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026

FDR’s “arsenal of democracy” produced External link 10 battleships, 27 carriers, 211 submarines, and 310,000 aircraft to help win the war and establish Pax Americana.

From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026

Navy decommissioned its last battleship in 1992, after the military recognized that battleships had become sitting ducks, vulnerable to modern military munitions that could pick off the vessel from the sky.

From Salon ● May 8, 2026

The regular navy operated Iran’s big battleships largely for prestige and occasional long-range deployments.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026

The President Adams was still a few miles out from land, following the battleships and minesweepers that went ahead of us to enter the bay.

From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac


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