kamikazes
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pluralof kamikaze.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
kamikazenoun(during World War II) a member of a special corps in the Japanese air force charged with the suicidal mission of crashing an aircraft laden with explosives into an enemy target, especially a warship.
Example Sentences
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After the ship was struck by two kamikazes near Okinawa and began to sink, Meyers jumped into the water.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 25, 2021
I think there’s a myth about entrepreneurs that they are kamikazes, that they leap out of airplanes without parachutes.
From Slate ● Aug. 29, 2020
These are members of our Greatest Generation that survived Nazi snipers and Japanese kamikazes, but were lost to a virus.
From Fox News ● May 12, 2020
In May 1945, he navigated the Sullivans alongside the burning hulk of the Bunker Hill, an aircraft carrier that had been struck by two kamikazes.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 18, 2019
So, over the years I was able to learn where the idea of the kamikazes came from.
From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac
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