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Recent Examples of ordnance
As the ordnance exploded over the federal installation in Charleston Harbor on April 12, 1861, the Civil War began.
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Bill Steiden, Des Moines Register, 24 Mar. 2026
The site is closed to tourism due to unstable walls and concern about the presence of unexploded ordnance.
—ABC News, 23 Mar. 2026
Pan captured 243 photographs and 13 videos of payload-processing facilities, munitions bunkers, security checkpoints, mission-control centers, fuel and ordnance storage sites, and the nuclear submarine wharf.
—Adam Ciralsky, Vanity Fair, 19 Mar. 2026
My research focuses on using drone-based, multisensor imagery and artificial intelligence to improve the speed, accuracy and reliability of land mine and unexploded ordnance detection.
—Sagar Lekhak, The Conversation, 5 Mar. 2026
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Bill Steiden, Des Moines Register, 24 Mar. 2026
The site is closed to tourism due to unstable walls and concern about the presence of unexploded ordnance.
—ABC News, 23 Mar. 2026
Pan captured 243 photographs and 13 videos of payload-processing facilities, munitions bunkers, security checkpoints, mission-control centers, fuel and ordnance storage sites, and the nuclear submarine wharf.
—Adam Ciralsky, Vanity Fair, 19 Mar. 2026
My research focuses on using drone-based, multisensor imagery and artificial intelligence to improve the speed, accuracy and reliability of land mine and unexploded ordnance detection.
—Sagar Lekhak, The Conversation, 5 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ordnance
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Allen attempted to storm the dinner on foot, carrying multiple guns and knives, and planned to kill top officials, starting with the highest-ranking, according to the criminal complaint.—
Aysha Bagchi,
USA Today,
30 Apr. 2026
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After several minutes of police trying to get Steven Jones to drop the knife with their guns drawn, the three officers were able to form a circle around him with a sidewalk and small snowbank to his back, the video shows.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
30 Apr. 2026
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Amodei cited the concern that Anthropic technology would be used for fully autonomous lethal weapons whose decisions were made without human involvement — and the potential for AI to be used for mass domestic surveillance on an unprecedented scale.—
U T Editorial Board,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 Apr. 2026
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In addition to SBIs to defend against missile attacks, Golden Dome will include lower-altitude and ground-based munitions suited for eliminating drones and other smaller, slower-moving aerial weapons.—
Stephen Clark,
ArsTechnica,
25 Apr. 2026
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“Ordnance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ordnance. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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