Maginot
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Nicholson says there was a team of people who policed placement of Semiotic Standard, the color-coded information symbols designed by Ron Cobb for the Nostromo spacecraft, on Maginot.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 12, 2025
Naming the ship Maginot, after a famously failed French defense in World War I, is clearly a little joke for history buffs, and also apt.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 11, 2025
The series takes place approximately two years before the original film’s events and therefore heavily draws from that aesthetic for the Maginot.
From Salon • Jul. 17, 2025
As the “Alien: Earth” trailer revealed, five specimens were picked up by the Maginot, which Knox-Johnston compared to Charles Darwin’s Beagle expedition.
From Salon • Jul. 17, 2025
The Maginot Line yawned and said, “Come on, China. We can’t hang in here all day. Them people be home soon.”
From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
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