The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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You can sit at the controls and peer through periscopes in a submarine room removed from attack submarine USS Greenling.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 14, 2024
The order will see Thales Glasgow continue a 100-year tradition of making periscopes for Royal Navy submarines.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2023
“They were using these range finders” in the periscopes, she said.
From New York Times ● Aug. 5, 2018
Still on the forbidden list: Phones, firearms, running, tipping, wearing baseball caps backward, ladders, periscopes and calling fans anything other than “patrons.”
From Washington Times ● Apr. 9, 2016
Little water snakes slipped down to the rocks and then gently entered the water and swam along through the pool, their heads held up like little periscopes and a tiny wake spreading behind them.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
