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  • noun Plural form of bombmaker.

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Examples

  • Two men identified as bombmakers, the target of the operation, were dead inside the house, their bodies later recovered by the Iraqi police.

    Archive 2008-04-01 Dana 2008

  • Al-Qaeda stopped using chlorine in its bombs in Iraq in mid-2007 in part because the insurgents never figured out how to make the chlorine attacks especially deadly, and the bombmakers were captured or killed.

    The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

  • The 7/7 bombmakers were said to have found it easy to buy quantities of liquid oxygen, which our story said could be "boiled down" to make hydrogen peroxide an unlikely process if real liquid oxygen were in use.

    Corrections and clarifications 2011

  • Al-Qaeda stopped using chlorine in its bombs in Iraq in mid-2007 in part because the insurgents never figured out how to make the chlorine attacks especially deadly, and the bombmakers were captured or killed.

    The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

  • Al-Qaeda stopped using chlorine in its bombs in Iraq in mid-2007 in part because the insurgents never figured out how to make the chlorine attacks especially deadly, and the bombmakers were captured or killed.

    The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

  • Al-Qaeda stopped using chlorine in its bombs in Iraq in mid-2007 in part because the insurgents never figured out how to make the chlorine attacks especially deadly, and the bombmakers were captured or killed.

    The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

  • Instead, Task Force Paladin is sharing its information with Afghan authorities and local elders in the hope that they will bring bombmakers to justice.

    Burger King May Return To Kandahar, Says Petraeus 2010

  • Instead, Task Force Paladin is sharing its information with Afghan authorities and local elders in the hope that they will bring bombmakers to justice.

    Burger King May Return To Kandahar, Says Petraeus 2010

  • In those first days soldiers from the US army's most deployed unit cleared 28 devices and destroyed a cache of 4,000lb of ammonium nitrate capable of supporting the local bombmakers for two years.

    Afghanistan's three parallel wars Peter Beaumont in Talukan 2010

  • The Obama administration had debated for months whether to release the arsenal numbers, with some intelligence officials worrying they could give clues to would-be bombmakers about how much plutonium was required for a weapon.

    Obama administration discloses size of U.S. nuclear arsenal 2010

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