intercontinental
Example Sentences
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That disruption was much more severe as it affected intercontinental and long-haul travel via UK airspace.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
Space support ships are designed to track rocket launches, satellites and intercontinental missile activity.
From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026
China's capacity to strike Australia would grow over the next decade as "the DF-27 intermediate-range ballistic missile, and potentially a conventionally armed intercontinental ballistic missile, grow in service numbers", it said.
From Barron's ● Jun. 14, 2026
Space, Mr. Musk pointed out, had barely improved since Apollo, while every other technology—from computing and the internet to intercontinental flight—had been transformed by newcomers and open competition.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
The most straightforward extension of this book will be to quantify further, and thus to establish more convincingly the role of, intercontinental differences in the four sets of factors that appear to be most important.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
