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as in desecrator
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as in warship
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Recent Examples of destroyer
Sailors on the destroyer USS Carney were awarded combat medals after shooting down 14 Houthi drones that attacked them at sea in December 2023.
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The Editors, National Review, 26 Mar. 2025
This Week China's Rivals Flex Aircraft Carrier Muscles US Ally Fixes US Navy Ship in Strategic Milestone
Trump Warns North Korea With Allied Carrier Drill
The Nimitz is deployed with destroyers USS Curtis Wilbur, USS Gridley, USS Wayne E. Meyer, and USS Lenah Sutcliffe Higbee.
—Kevin Sabet, Newsweek, 24 Mar. 2025
The deployment came one week after the U.S. Northern Command ordered the destroyer USS Gravely, which is based in Norfolk, Va., to travel to the Gulf of Mexico for the same reason.
—Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Mar. 2025
Like moving a Navy destroyer once on station in the Red Sea to our southern border.
—Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 19 Mar. 2025
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The Editors, National Review, 26 Mar. 2025
This Week China's Rivals Flex Aircraft Carrier Muscles US Ally Fixes US Navy Ship in Strategic Milestone
Trump Warns North Korea With Allied Carrier Drill
The Nimitz is deployed with destroyers USS Curtis Wilbur, USS Gridley, USS Wayne E. Meyer, and USS Lenah Sutcliffe Higbee.
—Kevin Sabet, Newsweek, 24 Mar. 2025
The deployment came one week after the U.S. Northern Command ordered the destroyer USS Gravely, which is based in Norfolk, Va., to travel to the Gulf of Mexico for the same reason.
—Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Mar. 2025
Like moving a Navy destroyer once on station in the Red Sea to our southern border.
—Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 19 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for destroyer
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In February, Chinese warships held live-fire drills in waters near Vietnam in the Gulf of Tonkin, known as the Beibu Gulf in China, after Hanoi published a map defining its territorial claims there.—
Nectar Gan,
CNN Money,
14 Apr. 2025
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Facing the threat posed by the Chinese navy, which has over 370 ships and submarines, the U.S. has sent warships to the Western Pacific Ocean following upgrades, including a laser-armed destroyer and an aircraft carrier that has stealth fighter jets embarked aboard.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 Apr. 2025
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Robert has the ability to be a game wrecker in the outfield, on the bases, and in the batter's box.—
Raja Krishnamoorthi,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 Apr. 2025
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In our case, this was a potential vacation wrecker.—
Basem Wasef,
Robb Report,
1 Apr. 2025
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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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Never submerge in water to wash them because mushrooms absorb like a sponge and become mushy.—
Cathy Thomas,
Oc Register,
14 Apr. 2025
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In water as much as 4,200 feet deep the team from the Schmidt Ocean Institute found a surprisingly flourishing ecosystem that included icefish, giant sea spiders, octopus, corals and sponges.—
Elizabeth Weise,
USA Today,
13 Apr. 2025
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Both qualities suggest he’ll be easily manipulated by the senior senator from his home state, who ultimately becomes Smith’s saboteur and nemesis when the scales fall from the younger man’s eyes.—
Nina Metz,
Chicago Tribune,
13 Mar. 2025
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Our own inner saboteurs, as RuPaul would say, are really the villain of the story.—
Samantha Highfill,
EW.com,
24 Jan. 2025
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Ross’ outside-of-the-box ingenuity also fueled a project by the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans that found Ross shipping himself in a freighter crate that journeyed from Rhode Island to Alabama.—
Randy Myers,
The Mercury News,
31 Dec. 2024
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But the freighter may not be grounded forever.—
Mike Wall,
Space.com,
27 Mar. 2025
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Americans know the federal government is squandering too many of their dollars on low-return programs, allowing too much of their money to be siphoned off by grifters and supporting too many leeches who are bleeding taxpayers dry.—
Nolan Finley,
Twin Cities,
4 Mar. 2025
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Are you surrounded by individuals who drain your energy (i.e., leeches and loafers)?—
Glenn Llopis,
Forbes,
22 Feb. 2025
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For example, default settings for focus time added blocking of sites in the categories Shopping, Tabloids, and Time wasters.—
PCMAG,
PCMAG,
13 Jan. 2025
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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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“Destroyer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/destroyer. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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