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missile

noun as in projectile weapon

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Those interest payments won’t stop a Chinese missile aimed at the Pacific fleet in Honolulu.

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In a rare acknowledgment during a meeting Thursday with Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev, Putin said that missiles fired by Russian air defenses after Ukrainian drones entered Russian airspace had detonated near an Azerbaijan Airlines plane.

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It was a shared sensibility formed by what we’d already lived through, the theater of our childhood: Thatcher, Reagan, the MX missile.

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An empowered North Korea hurls harsh words and occasional missiles toward Tokyo.

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Then there is the copper needed for bullet casings, jet fighters, missile systems and other weapons as governments around the world dial up spending on defense.

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

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