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
The crowds along Charlottenburger Chaussee were so thick that people in the back rows had to use rented periscopes to see what was happening up front.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
