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pipe bomb

NOUN
homemade bomb
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In Washington DC, a bomb threat was made to the Democratic National Committee headquarters, trigging a police search of the building where a pipe bomb was discovered on 6 January 2021.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2025

The former congressman Lee Zeldin, who is Trump’s pick to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, said the police had contacted him about a pipe bomb threat made to his home.

From New York Times ● Nov. 27, 2024

That same year, he was featured alongside Kevin Bacon in the zippy horror comedy “Tremors,” using a lasso to fool a man-eating worm into swallowing a makeshift pipe bomb.

From Washington Post ● May 13, 2022

It comes months after a pipe bomb was left at the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee and the Republican National Committee in Washington a day before thousands of pro-Trump rioters stormed the U.S.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 19, 2021

The indictment does not mention or include federal prosecutors’ allegation that Mr. Sayoc mailed a pipe bomb to former President Obama.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 9, 2018



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