periscope
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The periscope device never made it to production but the distinctive roof profile survived, earning the cars the nickname “Periscopio.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 25, 2026
Washington afterwards released what it said was periscope footage of the submarine firing on the ship, and an image of its hull almost vertical as it slipped below the surface.
From Barron's ● Mar. 6, 2026
In his metaphorical submarine without a periscope, the attorney general and his senior staff were oblivious to what was occurring on Capitol Hill just a few blocks from the Justice Department building.
From Salon ● Apr. 6, 2024
The most expensive variant of the new generation iPhone will have a periscope camera that could improve zoom capacity by 5 times or more, according TF International Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo.
From Reuters ● Aug. 29, 2023
The tongue poked around the room like a periscope, seeming to be testing the air.
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
You can sit at the controls and peer through periscopes in a submarine room removed from attack submarine USS Greenling.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 14, 2024
The order will see Thales Glasgow continue a 100-year tradition of making periscopes for Royal Navy submarines.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2023
“And they’re able to see periscopes or other changes in the water that can point to a submarine.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2023
Still on the forbidden list: Phones, firearms, running, tipping, wearing baseball caps backward, ladders, periscopes and calling fans anything other than “patrons.”
From Washington Times ● Apr. 9, 2016
The crowds along Charlottenburger Chaussee were so thick that people in the back rows had to use rented periscopes to see what was happening up front.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
Vocabulary lists containing periscope
Power Suffix: -scope
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