saucer
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In a work on paper, a flying saucer shoots neon-orange beams at a nuclear power plant.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
Among the munitions were dozens of thick, green plastic discs about the diameter of a saucer.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2025
An apocryphal story has George Washington breakfasting with Thomas Jefferson and referring to the Senate as a saucer intended to cool the passions of the intemperate lower chamber.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2025
Another spacecraft will then snag the samples and send them to Earth, where they’ll fall to the same Utah desert where Hays watched the saucer drop last year.
From Salon ● Mar. 29, 2024
She returned to Finn’s room and placed the saucer on the floor by the closet door, where the mother could find it.
From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby
After she downsized, she opened her cupboard and showed him four plates, four saucers, four cups and four bowls.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
An Air Force intelligence report -- marked "top secret" -- from November of the following year features information on reported sightings of "unidentified aircraft" and "flying saucers."
From Barron's ● May 8, 2026
If they falter then Irish eyes will be like saucers, but only if they've done a job on Italy first.
From BBC ● Mar. 15, 2025
The room was dimly lit, with an espresso machine and several small tables where men in suits sat with tiny cups and saucers before them.
From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2024
This was before Billy had his head broken in an airplane crash, by the way—before he became so vocal about flying saucers and traveling in time.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
Vocabulary lists containing saucer
Novel Study: Ten Days in a Mad-House, Chapters I–X
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Selection Vocabulary 3, Unit 6
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