drone
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The railway authority also said former CIA chief David Petraeus had been on board another train at Yahodyn station at the time of the drone strike.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
Iraq said it had fired a military commander and launched an investigation after admitting the drone attack on its neighbour's East-West pipeline had originated in one of its provinces bordering Iran.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
Retail giant Amazon has put an application in to expand its drone delivery service to cover an entire town where it has been trialling the tech.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
Ahead of the memorial, a drone show with 2,977 lights rose above New York Harbor, one for each person killed in the attacks.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
Rubio is even closer to the shuttle, loading a collection bag onto a drone.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
The imagery is part of a broader flow of Chinese technology and data used by Iran, including navigation services, and components used in drones and missiles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
The kingdom said drones fired from Iraq damaged the East-West pipeline, which can carry up to 7 million barrels of oil a day.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
On Wednesday, the Saudi-led coalition battling the Houthis said the group fired ballistic missiles and drones at several cities in southern Saudi Arabia.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
Carbon said the drones help keep "people off the road".
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
The drones are still too far away, though, for us to be able to hold our breaths yet.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
At one event, in which Oz was interviewed by Dean Cain, an actor who played Superman in a 1990s television show, about 50 people listened in as Oz droned on about an anti-fraud task force.
From Slate ● Jul. 1, 2026
That light droned down on me for years as I moved from computer games to MySpace, illuminating whatever sins I was committing as a guinea pig in the days of early social media.
From Salon ● Jan. 7, 2025
That excitement was not evident inside the grand ballroom at the JW Marriott in Houston Sunday, as Harbaugh droned on about nature documentaries he shows his team on the day of a game.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 7, 2024
Footage posted by Sam Yebri, a former City Council candidate, showed smoke billowing in the street as people yelled and a siren droned.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 24, 2023
Insects droned in the noon heat, and the water slipped musically over green-mossed stones.
From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli
“Ups & Downs” is an instrumental with a droning keyboard—perhaps a harmonium—along with a clarinet and clattering percussion that sounds like a drum kit being slowly unpacked from its case.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
An audio reader daren’t go flat, for fear of droning on and boring the listener, but as this audiobook shows, excessive buoyancy also carries a risk.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026
Dillon also mocked his critics during the episode, impersonating them in a droning voice: “They don’t believe in anything, these people.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2025
If you think legislative sausage-making is tedious now, imagine this: a bunch of blowhards on the Senate floor, droning on and on, endlessly debating the chamber’s rules.
From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2025
She moldered in humid rooms with droning biology and composition professors.
From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby
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