interdiction
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During a sustained interdiction campaign, “terrain-holding will become increasingly untenable for Russian ground forces who will be under-resourced from the rear and increasingly subject to attrition from the front,” the operating concept document predicted.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 24, 2026
Peaco has worked on drone interdiction programs since 2018, when he began with the Rose Parade and Rose Bowl.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 18, 2026
His career has included Coast Guard search and rescue operations, maritime salvage missions, drug interdiction work, and research at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory involving autonomous systems, space technologies, and undersea platforms.
From Science Daily • Jun. 11, 2026
"Overnight, U.S. forces carried out a maritime interdiction and right-of-visit boarding of the sanctioned stateless vessel M/T Majestic X transporting oil from Iran, in the Indian Ocean," it said on X.
From Barron's • Apr. 23, 2026
What we were supposed to be doing was what they called an interdiction number.
From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers
Vocabulary lists containing interdiction
"The Tragedy of Macbeth," Vocabulary from Act 4
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"Paradise Lost" by John Milton, Book VII
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