intercontinental
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His young daughter, Kim Ju Ae, has also worn a Dior padded jacket to an intercontinental ballistic missile launch.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Space support ships are designed to track rocket launches, satellites and intercontinental missile activity.
From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026
National Laboratories and NASA, and in the deployment of space-based interceptors, intercontinental ballistic missiles and other spacecraft.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
It rounded off a marathon qualification process that began in September 2023 and spanned six confederations before culminating in the high‑stakes Uefa and intercontinental play‑offs on 31 March.
From BBC ● Apr. 1, 2026
Sputnik was proof, American policymakers assumed, that the Soviet Union had intercontinental ballistic missiles—many of them, hundreds perhaps, with the power to hurl an atomic weapon at US cities.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
