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- noun Plural form of
minesweeper .
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Examples
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At the high end, this includes the use of unmanned aerial vehicles to patrol the roads and detect suspicious activity, to heavily armoured "minesweepers" such as the Buffalo, which can investigate roadside packages, and artillery radar to pinpoint hit-and-run mortar attacks.
Are we a nation of mummy's boys? Richard 2006
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I can completely understand the designer was some klutz who came up with SCs, and then made the minimal adjustment to make them useless as "minesweepers", to trigger traps for you.
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A group of minesweepers and bomb-sniffing dogs had just moved over the area and were several steps ahead of Silva when the bomb went off, the newspaper said.
Joao Silva, New York Times Photographer, Wounded In Afghanistan The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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A group of minesweepers and bomb-sniffing dogs had just moved over the area and were several steps ahead of Silva when the bomb went off, the newspaper said.
Joao Silva, New York Times Photographer, Wounded In Afghanistan Hunter Stuart 2010
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Hammond will say that British warships, including minesweepers, will keep playing a "substantial role" in the Gulf.
Britain and US to scale down military capability due to debt crisis 2012
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A group of minesweepers and bomb-sniffing dogs had just moved over the area and were several steps ahead of Silva when the bomb went off, the newspaper said.
Joao Silva, New York Times Photographer, Wounded In Afghanistan Hunter Stuart 2010
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Some villagers were coerced to work "as human minesweepers to clear the way for the safe passage of soldiers."
Michelle Chen: Burma's New Labor Law: Built to Fail or Shifting Toward Democracy? Michelle Chen 2011
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A group of minesweepers and bomb-sniffing dogs had just moved over the area and were several steps ahead of Silva when the bomb went off, the newspaper said.
Joao Silva, New York Times Photographer, Wounded In Afghanistan Hunter Stuart 2010
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Some villagers were coerced to work "as human minesweepers to clear the way for the safe passage of soldiers."
Michelle Chen: Burma's New Labor Law: Built to Fail or Shifting Toward Democracy? Michelle Chen 2011
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A group of minesweepers and bomb-sniffing dogs had just moved over the area and were several steps ahead of Silva when the bomb went off, the newspaper said.
Joao Silva, New York Times Photographer, Wounded In Afghanistan Hunter Stuart 2010
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