combat
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Social media platforms also told us they had zero tolerance for any content that promoted people smuggling and were working with authorities to combat organised crime.
From BBC • Apr. 10, 2026
“The Navy as an institution likes pointy-nosed things, like combat ships and submarines,” said Hunter Stires, who served under the Biden administration as the maritime strategist to Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
Earl’s combat partner was nicknamed Tiger and it was passed along.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026
Involving more than 150 aircraft, this was “one of the largest, most complex, most harrowing combat searches” ever attempted, Mr. Trump said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026
The First World War had ended before he completed his flight training, but he often wrote about combat pilots and aerial performers in his fiction.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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