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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of western Russia south-southwest of Moscow. Nearby, the Soviet Army defeated the Germans in one of the largest battles of World War II (1943).
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- proper noun A city in
Russia ; the administrative center of Kursk Oblast, Russia; scene of a majorWorld War II battle between Soviet and German forces in 1943.
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- noun a city of southwestern Russia
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Examples
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On August 12, 2000, the "Kursk" -- the largest attack submarine ever built -- went out to perform a drill in the Barents Sea.
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The aliens, named the Kursk, wanted to install giant antennae at equidistant points around earth and they wanted us to hook our datacables into them.
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We know that the type of escape hatch that's on the Kursk is the same that's been on the Kito (ph) class submarines, and these -- the LR5 has exercise with in the -- with a NATO Polish Kito class submarines.
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HANNA: A number of the sailors were born in this town called Kursk, the town after which the submarine was named.
CNN Transcript - Breaking News: Submarine Kursk and Town of Kursk Wait for Rescue - August 15, 2000 2000
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LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: Britain says the Russian government has now ask for help in the rescue mission of that ill-fated nuclear submarine, Kursk, which is on the bottom of the Barents Sea.
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And it's impossible to say at this moment that the Kursk is a victim of this poor training, poor readiness, but it's a possibility that the collision occurred because the crew simply wasn't adequately trained.
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LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: We've gotten some late word now on the fate of that Russian submarine, the Kursk, which is now lying on the bottom of the Barents Sea.
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The loss of the Kursk was a direct consequence of the fleet command's negligence, "said Boris Kuznetsov, a lawyer who represented some of the sailors 'relatives."
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The loss of the Kursk was a direct consequence of the fleet command's negligence, "said Boris Kuznetsov, a lawyer who represented some of the sailors 'relatives."
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The Kursk was the pride of Russia's Northern Fleet
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