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
Let’s think about the terrifying theremin line that snakes through “Good Vibrations” like it’s tugging a flying saucer down onto Dockweiler Beach.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 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
Portia spread out her lips and blew into her saucer of coffee.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
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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
What has been observed may look like flying saucers but they are actually lenticular clouds, also referred to by some as pancake or UFO clouds.
From BBC ● Jan. 17, 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
There were goblets, sherbet glasses, ice-cream glasses, wine glasses, green glass coffee cups with matching saucers, and water glasses.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
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