intercontinental
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Space support ships are designed to track rocket launches, satellites and intercontinental missile activity.
From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026
China's capacity to strike Australia would grow over the next decade as "the DF-27 intermediate-range ballistic missile, and potentially a conventionally armed intercontinental ballistic missile, grow in service numbers", it said.
From Barron's ● Jun. 14, 2026
Space, Mr. Musk pointed out, had barely improved since Apollo, while every other technology—from computing and the internet to intercontinental flight—had been transformed by newcomers and open competition.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
The Democratic Republic of Congo qualified for their first World Cup in 52 years by beating Jamaica in their intercontinental play-off final, with an extra-time goal from Axel Tuanzebe sealing the win.
From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2026
Today, our jet planes have made even the longest intercontinental flights briefer than the duration of any human infectious disease.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
