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missile

[mis-uhl, -ahyl] / ˈmɪs əl, -aɪl /


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Centrcom said that U.S. forces had successfully defeated multiple Iranian ballistic missile and drone attacks and that no American personnel had been harmed.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026

Previously, different radar and interceptor systems did not communicate, requiring up to 20 people to monitor drone and missile threats.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026

Moscow last month also deployed its nuclear-capable ballistic missile -- dubbed Oreshnik -- for only the third time of the invasion.

From Barron's • Jun. 1, 2026

Among the valuable hardware damaged were three state-of-the-art anti-ballistic missile batteries systems at the Al Ruwais and Al Sader airbases in the UAE and Muwaffaq Salti Airbase in Jordan.

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026

Pat Robertson, the former television evangelist and presidential candidate, maintained recently that he couldn’t prove that there weren’t Soviet missile sites in Cuba and therefore there might be.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos




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