dreadnought
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The England captain is the subject of a 25-feet high mural on Whitehall Street, opposite the great, gunmetal dreadnought of the Tottenham Hotspur stadium.
From BBC • May 28, 2023
It is the only remaining WWI-era dreadnought battleship.
From Washington Times • Aug. 31, 2022
The Imperatritsa Maria dreadnought battleship sank in 1916 after an explosion involving ammunition.
From Reuters • Apr. 14, 2022
A recommissioned dreadnought, the New Jersey, with sixteen-inch guns revamped and rumored to be out of dry dock in Philadelphia and headed this way.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 14, 2019
Bethlehem Steel brought giant ingots and great slabs of military armor, including a curved plate seventeen inches thick meant for the gun turret of the dreadnought Indiana.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
Vocabulary lists containing dreadnought
World War I
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The Devil in the White City
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The Shining
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