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land mine

noun as in explosive matter on the ground

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Pentagon safety inspectors came to the Tennessee property of explosives manufacturer Accurate Energetic Systems four times a year, tasked with examining facilities that made land mines, demolition charges and other products for the military.

On Monday, two soldiers were killed there by a land mine planted by an Islamic State cell, the SDF said.

She even pulls off lines that should be clangers: “I really hope we don’t die in a land mine today.”

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Today, they are all barren, with no greenery visible except for the green tops of land mines that we can see using binoculars.

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He said “stepping up monitoring and preparedness” is needed to avoid “triggering the land mine into a full-scale pandemic.”

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