drone
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NATO-member engagement with a sea drone is a rarer event, however, and prompted European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Thursday to say that Europe was facing “an escalating campaign of threats.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Part of the soundtrack to a day in southern California is the drone of petrol-powered gardening equipment.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
The ministry said a drone entered Romanian airspace near Galati before crashing in an unpopulated area around Tulcea, close to Ukraine.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
Romanian Defense Minister Radu Miruta said the naval drone was spotted a few hundred meters away from the Neptun Deep platform, which sits 80 miles east of the Romanian Black Sea city of Constanta.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
I’d thought nothing could be worse than listening to him drone about the proper inflections of my vowels; now I’m starting to wonder if I was mistaken.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
After that incident, Romania’s government requested Ukraine ensure its drones are programmed to self-destruct if they come near Romanian waters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Aerial support crews, grounded by bad weather earlier in the week, hoped to keep operating until nightfall, when civil protection drones would take over the task of monitoring for "potential flare-ups," the governor's statement said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
DJI, the Shenzhen-based company that dominates the global consumer market for drones, also makes handheld cameras and other imaging gear.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
And he praised the use of drones to identify wildfire hot spots and said resources had to be ensured to support "newer technologies which will mean that we can tackle wildfires more effectively".
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
I keep my eyes open for the drones and guards.
From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed
At one event, in which Oz was interviewed by Dean Cain, an actor who played Superman in a 1990s television show, about 50 people listened in as Oz droned on about an anti-fraud task force.
From Slate ● Jul. 1, 2026
“Now bring it up to your heartspace, connecting to your heart,” she continued, as ambient music droned in the background.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2025
That light droned down on me for years as I moved from computer games to MySpace, illuminating whatever sins I was committing as a guinea pig in the days of early social media.
From Salon ● Jan. 7, 2025
One day after it got too bizarre, the actors said nothing funny and court proceedings droned on to keep Gladden off their scent.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 4, 2023
He barely listened as his teacher droned on about something.
From "Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story" by Nora Raleigh Baskin
The mostly instrumental “Panorama” swirls banjo, mandolin, strings and horns with droning electronics, landing on a kind of spaced-out Americana.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
An audio reader daren’t go flat, for fear of droning on and boring the listener, but as this audiobook shows, excessive buoyancy also carries a risk.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026
But by the time the dialogue-free, centerpiece underwater sequence brims with Max Aruj and Alfie Godfrey’s droning score, popcorn shuffling stopped.
From Salon ● May 24, 2025
"It is a very low humming, droning, pulsating noise. It's incredibly intrusive and distressing," she said.
From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2025
The day was warm at noonday, not lazy and droning like July but mellow with late August.
From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya
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