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kamikazes

  • plural
    of kamikaze.
    kamikaze
    noun
    (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.

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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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