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- noun Plural form of
airburst .
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Examples
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It described airbursts over Vicksburg in the summer of 1863, and a family of Negroes and one of poor whites trying to take cover in a cave they had dug in the bluffs with barrel staves.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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It described airbursts over Vicksburg in the summer of 1863, and a family of Negroes and one of poor whites trying to take cover in a cave they had dug in the bluffs with barrel staves.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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It described airbursts over Vicksburg in the summer of 1863, and a family of Negroes and one of poor whites trying to take cover in a cave they had dug in the bluffs with barrel staves.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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It described airbursts over Vicksburg in the summer of 1863, and a family of Negroes and one of poor whites trying to take cover in a cave they had dug in the bluffs with barrel staves.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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Improved accuracy now allows war planners to target hardened sites with low-yield warheads and even airbursts.
Superiority Complex 2007
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When the marines were out of ammunition, Hackberry remembered the great silence that followed and the hissing of shrapnel from airbursts in the snow and then the bugles blowing again.
Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009
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And, in the same action, Israel committed the war crime of using airbursts of white phosphorous above civilian areas.
OpEdNews - Diary: War Criminal Obama Announces a Troop Decision 2009
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When the marines were out of ammunition, Hackberry remembered the great silence that followed and the hissing of shrapnel from airbursts in the snow and then the bugles blowing again.
Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009
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When the marines were out of ammunition, Hackberry remembered the great silence that followed and the hissing of shrapnel from airbursts in the snow and then the bugles blowing again.
Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009
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Improved accuracy now allows war planners to target hardened sites with low-yield warheads and even airbursts.
Superiority Complex 2007
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