drone
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Yuriy, a senior instructor who led one of the squads across the gruelling obstacle course, has at times pondered the necessity of such trials given the nature of drone warfare.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
The ministry said a drone entered Romanian airspace near Galati before crashing in an unpopulated area in Tulcea county.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
Crashing someone else’s drone can turn a cheap weekend rental into a very expensive one.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
Uber is teaming up with drone startup Zipline to take its delivery service to the skies, a move aimed at winning customers demanding ever-quicker turnaround times for takeout, grocery and retail orders.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
We walked on home with the ladder, stepping high over shadows, in a drone of locusts and the gathering gloom, the night before school took up.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
"Twenty-eight drones were destroyed in the Moscow region," Sobyanin added.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 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
In July, DoorDash secured a key certification from the Federal Aviation Administration to make commercial deliveries using drones.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
“Does the how even matter?” drones a pale, thin man.
From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston
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
Maher droned, becoming what feels like the 587th famous performer to mourn their inability to see Louis C.K. smirk at them on a network show.
From Salon ● May 16, 2024
That excitement was not evident inside the grand ballroom at the JW Marriott in Houston Sunday, as Harbaugh droned on about nature documentaries he shows his team on the day of a game.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 7, 2024
Canned music droned from the telephone as Jessica Sanchez waited, fidgeting and shifting her pregnant belly in her chair at the Santa Monica community health center.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2023
Through his memory Mrs. Bacon’s voice droned on.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
Whatever engine droning and snoozing you might remember from earlier CVT systems has been banished to the Phantom Zone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
The little wagon retains the flat-four’s characteristic droning when it revs out, as when merging with highway traffic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
"It is a very low humming, droning, pulsating noise. It's incredibly intrusive and distressing," she said.
From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2025
Lynch follows Jack Nance’s Henry Spencer as he tries to care for his newborn child, while the droning industrial noise of Henry’s urban surroundings only magnifies his loneliness.
From Salon ● Jan. 25, 2025
He wrapped the tin in a flannel cloth to stifle the incessant buzzing and droning, and stowed it away under his bunk.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
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