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Recent Examples of destroyer
Hammond said the 314-foot destroyer held a special place in naval history.
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Patrick Smith, NBC News, 12 Nov. 2024
General Dynamics’s product line includes Abrams tanks, submarines, destroyers and military electronics.
—John Dorfman, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
The Russian missile Gerasimov was referring to took place this week in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, where the U.S. Navy has three amphibious ships and destroyers that provide missile defense for Israel.
—Brendan Cole, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
An obvious list would include Robert Cottingham’s signature landscapes of elaborate neon signage and Malcolm Morley’s souvenir postcards of cruise ships and recruiting posters of naval destroyers.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2024
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Patrick Smith, NBC News, 12 Nov. 2024
General Dynamics’s product line includes Abrams tanks, submarines, destroyers and military electronics.
—John Dorfman, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
The Russian missile Gerasimov was referring to took place this week in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, where the U.S. Navy has three amphibious ships and destroyers that provide missile defense for Israel.
—Brendan Cole, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
An obvious list would include Robert Cottingham’s signature landscapes of elaborate neon signage and Malcolm Morley’s souvenir postcards of cruise ships and recruiting posters of naval destroyers.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2024
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Also on Thursday, a Chinese warship with the bow number 552 was spotted about 50 nautical miles (58 miles) off the coast of Zambales province in Luzon, the Philippines' most populous island.Micah McCartney, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
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South Korea Defense Ministry/AP In November, Mr. Nakatani became the first Japanese defense minister to board a South Korean warship, when the ship made a port call in Yokosuka, Japan.Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Dec. 2024
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The story of its existence—never safe from the wrecker’s ball and once, in 1997, devastated by a fire so hot the tiles fell off—begins with railroad baron Cornelius Vanderbilt opening Grand Central Terminal in 1913, putting the Oyster Bar in its belly.John Mariani, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
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Then the skit begins to outline the story of Domingo, Marcello Hernandez’s charming home wrecker who shows up to set to record straight direct from Domingo.Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 28 Oct. 2024
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These preyed upon American merchantmen who either payed tribute or showed forged British passes.Thomas Wendel, National Review, 4 July 2019
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The Navy already has ships in the fleet that are former merchantmen.Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 10 Jan. 2019
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Combine dwell time with tools: After letting products sit, use scrub brushes, microfiber cloths, or sponges to enhance cleaning power.Quincy Bulin, Southern Living, 23 Dec. 2024
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Plus, as opposed to sponges or loofahs, the surfaces of the hands aren’t prone to breeding microorganisms.Jenny Berg, Allure, 23 Dec. 2024
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The saboteurs' goal was to imply that No Labels was a right-wing shadow effort.Kelsey Walsh, ABC News, 27 Nov. 2024
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The United States also revealed Russian plans to send saboteurs into eastern Ukraine to stage an incident that could provide Putin with a pretext for an invasion.Douglas London, Foreign Affairs, 15 Feb. 2022
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Skip the redundant backstory and give us more freighter action with Captain Galt, Keamy, and Minkowski.Michael Alan Connelly, Vulture, 1 July 2024
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In 2024 through September, Boeing delivered thirty eight MAX aircraft to China, and in July two 777 freighters to Air China.Jerrold Lundquist, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
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Roving like hungry jackals, smallmouth bass will move down and along drop-offs, hunting for the holdout crayfish, leeches, and insects along their way.Kubie Brown, Outdoor Life, 3 Oct. 2024
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The leeches in both videos belong to a species called Chtonobdella fallax.Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 June 2024
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Photo: Brown Harris Stevens Above the bedroom is a double-height library, which turns the sloping ceiling behind a mansard roof into a design feature rather than a space waster.Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 24 Oct. 2024
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California is moving to outlaw watering some grass that’s purely decorative Today, the lawn is among the biggest wasters of water in our urban environment — by some estimates accounting for more than half of the gallons used by city residents each year.Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2024
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“Destroyer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/destroyer. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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