torpedos

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The first three pitches to Yankees hitters were hit over the fence — a record feat — and most of the bombs were hit by torpedos.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2025

As well as pioneering military submarines, they produced guns and torpedos, warships and airships, depth charges and aircraft carriers.

From The Guardian • Feb. 18, 2013

Deen damned the torpedos, shrugged off cholesterol and generally embraced her role as the Hunter S. Thompson of the Velveeta set.

From Time • Jan. 18, 2012

But this one involved torpedos and GIs drowning in the ice, so she apparently she had skipped ahead to World War II.

From Salon • Feb. 19, 2010

The torpedos, which are furnished with an electric organ externally visible, on account of the transparency of the skin, form a genus or subgenus different from the rays properly so called.*

From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 by Humboldt, Alexander von