manned
Example Sentences
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Last January, his parents were among those killed after an American Airlines plane from Kansas carrying 64 people onboard collided with a military helicopter, manned by three personnel.
From BBC
The messages ricochet across an Iowa grocery store, a kind of ambient chorus while, at one of the few remaining manned checkout lines, a cashier squints at his screen.
From Salon
The shop will be manned by Wheeler employees who can swap in replacement generators as front-line units are taken out of service for repairs or maintenance.
“They are interdicting stuff 40 to 70 kilometers from the front line. Previously, for those effects, you needed to fly manned aircraft.”
The definition has changed over the years and has been broadened to include data from automated weather-recording stations as well as manned or manual sites.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
