: a canister of small individual bombs that is dropped from an aircraft
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Campbell, a University of Colorado grad who lives in Ridgway, faced other kinds of potentially fatal risks beyond his control — cluster bombs, missiles, artillery fire — on multiple trips to Ukraine since 2022 as a conflict journalist.—John Meyer, Denver Post, 25 Mar. 2025 In investigations after the fact, humanitarian organizations also raised concerns about several factors in NATO's conduct, including the targeting of a Belgrade TV station and the use of cluster bombs, which take a disproportionate civilian death toll.—Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2025 The cluster bombs around Yuzyk were manufactured in Soviet arms plants during the Cold War and bequeathed to Ukraine by the luck of geography and the shortsightedness of its aggressor.—C.j. Chivers Robert Fass Krish Seenivasan Steven Szczesniak, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2024 Prospectors – Spawns three powerful cluster bombs on detonation which do larger damage per shot in a much larger area.—Paul Tassi, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for cluster bomb
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