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drone

[drohn] / droʊn /




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I have it on good authority that the company is working on a sleeveless hologram of Pat McAfee which will be delivered by drone to your house to do air squats until kickoff.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

Four days later, Ukrainian drone operators reported that they were losing unrestricted access to the Starlink network for unexplained reasons, leading to the urgent requests from Kyiv for an explanation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

"We are alarmed by the continued deadly drone strikes across the country that are killing civilians, including children, and that are disrupting essential services," UN spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said on Monday, external.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

The 92nd Assault Brigade said a ground rescue mission was not possible as the wounded serviceman was surrounded by landmines and there was high Russian drone activity in the area.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

There’s not a single drone with more toxin.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

If the military can’t buy as many F-35s or Patriot interceptors as it hoped, it might opt to buy drones and unmanned aircraft, Callan said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

It also cited a military source as saying air defences in the Sudanese capital had downed several other drones launched by the RSF towards the airport.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

That means a commander could draw responsible boundaries and issue orders, such as: We know that none of our pilots or drones are in this 10-mile radius, so take down anything in that airspace.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

The rising use of armed drones came as 20 million people faced acute hunger, with a rising risk of famine in parts of the western region of Darfur and Greater Kordofan, he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

With the Director’s attention elsewhere and the drones quiet for the day to make the Red Cross visitors more comfortable, this is a rare moment we need to take advantage of.

From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed

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

“Now bring it up to your heartspace, connecting to your heart,” she continued, as ambient music droned in the background.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2025

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

One day after it got too bizarre, the actors said nothing funny and court proceedings droned on to keep Gladden off their scent.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 4, 2023

I took the subway and it still droned through my mind after I had reached my room at Men's House and lay across the bed.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

The mostly instrumental “Panorama” swirls banjo, mandolin, strings and horns with droning electronics, landing on a kind of spaced-out Americana.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

Too many, I’d say, but slapping droning voiceovers atop expository visuals isn’t for me.

From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026

“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

She came to know the other immigrant women housed in a large room lined with 54 beds and a television droning most waking hours.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 3, 2025

It would not be good news to learn that we are all roped together intellectually, droning away at some featureless, genetically driven collective work, building something so immense that we can never see the outlines.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas


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