kinetic
Example Sentences
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Speaking to the BBC, presidential spokesman Sunday Dare would not say whether money had been paid to free the minority of abductees who were recently released, simply stating: "Whatever processes are involved - kinetic, non-kinetic, negotiations, etc - have been successful."
From BBC
Much of the price of oil, however, is “out of the president’s hands — outside of enforcement of sanctions and potential kinetic military actions that could escalate supply risks,” he said.
From MarketWatch
Except when the air force uses the combative kinetic security approach, details of the circumstances under which hostages are released are rare.
From Barron's
According to the authors, the kinetic energy associated with earthquakes can influence both the chemistry and the biological makeup of aquifer fluids.
From Science Daily
In “Task”—a kinetic journey into a disregarded America, low-rent organized crime and justice wrested from madness—Mark Ruffalo was an ex-priest turned FBI agent, which was not even close to preposterous as handled by creator-writer Brad Ingelsby.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
