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fighter

[fahy-ter] / ˈfaɪ tər /


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But he’s selling off his World War II fighter jets, and he’s donated almost all the medieval armor that he started collecting in the 1970s, funneling most of the armor to the Met as well.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026

US President Donald Trump said Saturday he was offering a press secretary role to mixed martial arts executive and "violent fighter" Dana White.

From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2026

The title comes from Stallone’s repeated insistence that he portray the working-class fighter in the film that he wrote for himself.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026

On Monday, a Wizz Air flight travelling from London Luton Airport to Sofia was escorted by a Hungarian fighter jet to Budapest after a mid-air bomb threat.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

Hidden away during the daytime, huddled together inside some shed or barn, we had heard and sometimes seen fighter planes flying low overhead, but we were safe from them, always well out of sight.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo

Solange Alexandre was also a rare woman who, with her future husband, created and commanded her own unit of anti-German fighters.

From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2026

Over the years, I’ve known Rudy Mondragón as a key expert in the intersection of boxing, race and culture, particularly in the ways fighters use the ring to perform identity, belonging and resistance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2026

In his comments Sunday, Trump suggested the inclusion of the fighters "from parts unknown" was how the public should have known it was a joke.

From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 2026

He said he had asked White to bring with him several current and former mixed martial arts fighters as "assistants".

From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026

When President James Madison went before Congress seeking a formal declaration of war, he specifically referred to British support for Indigenous fighters on the frontier.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz


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