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  • noun Plural form of starship.

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Examples

  • Tom's selection of Federation starships is just what I would have hoped it would be.

    Send Us Your Shelf Porn! | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment 2009

  • So, EVE gets two thumbs up for realizing such an amazingly complex gaming universe, and for making it beautiful, and two thumbs down for turning it into a dreadful capitalist bore that expects me to constantly interact with PvP-obsessed teenagers who name their starships after their penises and wouldn't know "suspension of disbelief" if it cut off their allowances.

    At Least I'm Not At Dragon*Con (Part Two) greygirlbeast 2008

  • A race that valued the concept of “enterprise” enough to name starships after it!

    Do Comets Dream? S. P. Somtow 2003

  • Trekkies just love our starships, which is why the Ships of the Line calendars are so popular.

    TrekMovie.com 2009

  • In reality, it is impossible to go faster than the speed of light, there are no "starships" or "galactic federations," and Data isn't even a real person (or whatever it is he's supposed to be).

    From the WSJ Opinion Archives 2008

  • Now they give us * Heaven*, where the computers -- especially the ones embedded in ancient Precursor artifacts such as starships -- are more than smart enough, but people are being stupid in another way.

    Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2004

  • "starships" creative collaborations that Mr. Shatner appears to be guiding.

    DailyTech News Feed 2010

  • Given what one lone starship was able to do to Nero's ship twenty-five years earlier, it would figure that a squadron of starships with a generation's worth of technological upgrades, warned and armed with shields up, could make pretty short work of Nero's ship before he could drill through the topsoil on Vulcan.

    Lance Mannion: 2009

  • But transporting bombs directly onto the bridge of enemy starships, or into Eridani factories, is unethical.

    365 tomorrows » 2009 » September : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009

  • But transporting bombs directly onto the bridge of enemy starships, or into Eridani factories, is unethical.

    365 tomorrows » Patricia Stewart : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010

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