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bomb

[bom] / bɒm /




VERB
fail miserably
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But the appeals court noted that the existing injunction specifically allows construction of underground bunkers, bomb shelters and military and medical infrastructure to continue, along with aboveground work strictly necessary for security.

From Salon Aug. 9, 2026

During Friday’s investigation into the bomb threat at Huntington Hospital, patients and staff were not evacuated.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 8, 2026

Few details about the drone bomb are yet public.

From BBC Aug. 7, 2026

"With climate change, we're sitting on a ticking time bomb," the 32-year-old founder of Bee Safe Mosquito Control tells AFP.

From Barron's Aug. 7, 2026

At the Greenbrier, in West Virginia, the bomb shelter for Congress was stocked with food for sixty days.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

Except for Iran, of course, which he alternately bombs, demonizes and flatters.

From Salon Aug. 7, 2026

The wildfires threatening Madrid carried about as much energy as 29 of the bombs dropped on Hiroshima, said Resco de Dios.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 29, 2026

Earlier US media reports suggested the deal could allow Saudi Arabia to enrich uranium in the future - which can be used as fuel for power plants, but also potentially to make nuclear bombs.

From BBC Jul. 23, 2026

Under Senate questioning Tuesday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declined to say whether American bombs were capable of destroying whatever is under Pickaxe Mountain.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

“Why do you want us to restrain ourselves?” he’d erupted at Kennedy advisers when they’d questioned the military’s plans to launch thousands of bombs in one massive attack.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

Surviving crews say they were bombed, and detained, by U.S. forces.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 3, 2026

A 1951 letter from another POW said Rose was in the rear hold of the Oryoku Maru when it was bombed.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 30, 2026

Heavily bombed during World War Two because of its huge manufacturing capacity, Manchester became a creative hub from the 1980s onwards with bands like New Order and Oasis achieving global fame.

From BBC Jul. 5, 2026

"They thought they would never be caught, because we never bomb during breakfast. But we bombed," Trump said during the G7 summit in France last month.

From Barron's Jul. 1, 2026

Their early years must have been terrible, huddled in the chambers beneath the ground after their city was bombed to dust.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins

The country marked the 81st anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing on Thursday and will do the same on Sunday to commemorate the attack on Nagasaki.

From Barron's Aug. 9, 2026

The existence of Al-Marimi's alleged confession was first revealed in 2020 when the US government announced it was charging him over the bombing.

From BBC Aug. 7, 2026

The original specimens of the sail-backed dinosaur Spinosaurus were destroyed in Munich by an allied bombing raid in 1944.

From Science Daily Aug. 7, 2026

In “Empire of Ashes” Mr. Scott shifts to the war’s final months, from America’s bombing campaign against Japan’s major cities in the spring of 1945 to the empire’s atomic death that August.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

By the end of June, Nixon pulled the American troops out of Cambodia, but continued his secretive policies of bombing Cambodia and having Kissinger meet with the North Vietnamese.

From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge




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