engines of war
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Eighty years later, the UK and European car industries are hoping that the engines of war can help defend against what one supplier told the BBC was a "terminal decline".
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
And the young people said, Jeremy shall bring peace unto all nations, for he hateth the engines of war that take wing across the heavens.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 9, 2017
Like engines of war massing for an offensive, they clustered in town squares, ballparks and filling-station driveways.
From Time Magazine Archive
By 1942, however, we knew that the Germans were working feverishly to find a way to add atomic energy to all the other engines of war with which they hoped to enslave the world.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
Forbidden to make engines of war, Japan made automobiles instead, and won the world.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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