tank
Example Sentences
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As the wildfires raged into Wednesday, Jan. 8, scores of fire hydrants in Pacific Palisades had little to no water flowing out and all water storage tanks in the area quickly “went dry.”
From Los Angeles Times
Taiwan responded to the exercises with rapid-response drills, deploying mobile missile units, displaying Patriot missiles and sending tanks onto the streets, among other measures, the Taiwan military and its affiliated media said.
In such a world, Ukraine is unlikely to stock up on the sort of expensive tanks and other armored vehicles that Western nations continue to buy, analysts say.
By 1926, things that at the century’s dawn had never been a part of daily life—vacuum cleaners, humans taking flight, military tanks, stainless steel—suddenly were.
Sarah Sattelmeyer, a project director in the higher-education initiative at New America, a think tank, said she’s specifically focussed on three main groups of borrowers who are vulnerable to the consequences of default next year.
From MarketWatch
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