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high-speed train

NOUN
bullet train
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CANNES, France — Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt arrived in France in 1996’s “Mission: Impossible” clinging to a high speed train through the Chunnel, pursued and nearly skewered by a helicopter.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2025

At 08:06 BST on 5 October 1999, a Thames Trains service to Bedwyn in Wiltshire collided with a Great Western high speed train from Cheltenham to London.

From BBC • Oct. 4, 2024

Hollywood star Brad Pitt fights off assassins on a high speed train travelling across Japan in action thriller "Bullet Train", reuniting with his former stuntman turned director David Leitch.

From Reuters • Jul. 21, 2022

Wherever you have a good one-to-one connection with a high speed train, you can eliminate flights totally.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 12, 2021

He shouted excitedly over the rumble of the high speed train.

From Terminal Compromise: computer terrorism: when privacy and freedom are the victims: a novel by Schwartau, Winn




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