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IED

American  
  1. improvised explosive device: a homemade or makeshift bomb.

    car bombs and other IEDs.


IED British  

abbreviation

  1. improvised explosive device

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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David Heathcote, an intelligence manager with security analysts McKenzie Intelligence, also suggested that the device appeared to be an IED.

From BBC • Dec. 17, 2024

Her character, Lynsey, is a soldier home from Afghanistan suffering from a traumatic brain injury after being wounded in an IED attack.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 2, 2022

Lynsey has just returned from Afghanistan, where she suffered a traumatic brain injury in an IED explosion.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 27, 2022

“You step on an IED in Afghanistan, and all of a sudden you’re in a wheelchair. How are you going to pay for that?”

From Washington Post • Jul. 27, 2022

I used the IED metaphor because that's what this stage of the disease feels like: a war.

From Salon • Jan. 13, 2022

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