noun
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a military aircraft designed to carry out bombing missions
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a person who plants bombs
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slang navy a Polaris submarine
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Despite the win, at this stage of his career the margins are thin and Father Time has also almost crept up on the Bronze Bomber.
From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026
Mr. Allport, a historian at Syracuse University, found this lovely missive in the digital archive of RAF Bomber Command, one of the many archives he has culled to put this book together.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
It evokes the feel of a night raid with RAF Bomber Command better than the Len Deighton novel that inspired it.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 25, 2026
By operating with even less transparency, the agency triggers more online efforts aimed at exposing its agents—a feedback loop that hopefully doesn’t end like the Boston Bomber Reddit case, but has the same potential.
From Slate • Jan. 28, 2026
Well, Byron’s brain had better get used to it, we all knew by the way they’d gotten the Bomber ready and by the way Momma’s voice sounded that they meant it this time.
From "The Watsons Go to Birmingham" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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