as in submarine
a large sandwich on a long split roll
that deli's torpedoes are big enough to serve two people
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Just the forward battery compartment and the torpedo compartment.
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David Szondy, New Atlas, 4 Jan. 2025
Browse more than 100 independent specialty shops and watch artists work at the Torpedo Factory Art Center, an artists’ collective located in a former WWII torpedo factory.
—Linnea Bailey, Southern Living, 31 Dec. 2024
The 7,800-ton, 377-foot-long Minnesota, which is conventionally armed with 25 torpedoes and 12 land-attack cruise missiles, will be the first Virginia-class submarine to station in Guam.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2024
The tale begins in the dead of night on July 30, 1945, when the USS Indianapolis was struck by two Japanese torpedoes in the vast, unforgiving expanse of the Pacific Ocean.
—Scott Travers, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2025
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David Szondy, New Atlas, 4 Jan. 2025
Browse more than 100 independent specialty shops and watch artists work at the Torpedo Factory Art Center, an artists’ collective located in a former WWII torpedo factory.
—Linnea Bailey, Southern Living, 31 Dec. 2024
The 7,800-ton, 377-foot-long Minnesota, which is conventionally armed with 25 torpedoes and 12 land-attack cruise missiles, will be the first Virginia-class submarine to station in Guam.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2024
The tale begins in the dead of night on July 30, 1945, when the USS Indianapolis was struck by two Japanese torpedoes in the vast, unforgiving expanse of the Pacific Ocean.
—Scott Travers, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2025
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“Torpedo.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/torpedo. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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