materiel

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In other cases, they said, other buyers — including other allied countries — have snatched up the matériel before they could close the deal.

From New York Times • Feb. 17, 2023

Those wars have often turned, perhaps more than any other factor, on industrial attrition, as each side strains to maintain the flow of matériel like tanks and antiaircraft munitions that keep it in the fight.

From New York Times • Jan. 16, 2023

The research team examined the Russian matériel in July at the invitation of the Ukrainian government.

From New York Times • Sep. 4, 2022

But both pieces of equipment have intricacies that are reminders of the complications that come from supplying a military with foreign matériel.

From New York Times • Jun. 6, 2022

His list of matériel liberated from the Union Army during the 1862 Shenandoah campaign included “six handkerchiefs, two and three quarter dozen neckties, and one bottle of red ink.”

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson