defense
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The 7-foot-3 center Aday Mara went from languishing on UCLA’s bench to leading the nation’s most dominant defense.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026
You may have seen news coverage of the budget’s top lines, which call for $1.5 trillion in defense spending next year and cuts totaling $73 billion in nondefense spending.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026
The former top official in Xinjiang is the latest aerospace-sector veteran targeted in probes rocking China’s defense industry.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026
Its hypersonic plane, designed for defense and national security missions, is farther off and dubbed the Darkhorse.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026
Playing the role of Powers’s defense lawyer was Mikhail Grinev, a wispy-goateed attorney whose job was to lose important cases to the government.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
