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While FuGo balloons were technically an intercontinental weapon, the long range of combers and, later, missiles would shrink the globe further.

From Slate Feb. 10, 2023

Raimondi’s team created a Web site for interested divers and tide-pool combers to contribute photographs and observations of sea stars in the wild.

From Scientific American Jul. 21, 2022

John McCarthy, of WA Coastal & Marine, thanked scallop divers, beach combers, dive clubs and also scientists at the Scottish Association of Marine Science, near Oban, for their help with the research.

From BBC May 1, 2016

When the hurricane struck a few days later, the men used their shirts and trousers to bail out the mountainous combers breaking over the raft.

From Time Magazine Archive

But when he came in earshot he heard the trampling roar of sea on rock, where combers, rising shoreward, thudded down on the sucking ebb—all sheeted with salt foam.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer




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