fighter
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It snatches at our attention with no more finesse than a losing fighter fumbling for a weapon.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
When the BBC visited the airbase at Keflavik this month, fighter jets were taking off, and the Stars and Stripes was flapping alongside the Belgian tricolour and Nato flags.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Allied countries have also responded and in the past week carried out a planned air exercise near the Russian exclave, using U.S. and Norwegian fighter aircraft and Polish ground forces.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
With a bald eagle, fighter jets, Air Force One, the Beast and race cars roaring through the nation’s capital, Trump certainly didn’t send the celebration out quietly.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026
She, too, shot down a German fighter plane on the day of Katya’s death, and she was back in the air the next day as well.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
For a long stretch, it’s like watching two heavyweight fighters circle each other round after round without throwing a punch.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
In consultation with NATO, two F-16 jet fighters shot down the naval drone, which was spotted east of the Romanian Black Sea city of Constanta near a gas platform with active workers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Turkey's interests in Syria historically revolved around preventing a spillover of Kurdish fighters.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
Another Italian and two Turkish jet fighters were scrambled in response to the incursion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Day and night we had heard too the drone of bombers overhead, but like the fighters, they passed us by, and left us in peace.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
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