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Space Invaders

British  

noun

  1. a video or computer game, the object of which is to destroy attacking alien spacecraft

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Traditional academia has mostly avoided UAP research because of the stigma of flying saucers and space invaders.

From Science Daily • Feb. 28, 2024

They spoke not of “UFOs” but of “UAPs” — unidentified aerial phenomena — and emphasized that such things are real, if not exactly evidence of space invaders.

From Washington Post • May 17, 2022

In Marvel's Avengers series, Tony Stark's invention of free energy mostly frees up the characters to focus on big, comic book-y threats, like A.I. robots and space invaders.

From Salon • Oct. 26, 2021

Even if our bodies don’t ever cross the voids between the stars, our DNA surely will, in a microscopic cascade of space invaders that could still colonize the galaxy.

From New York Times • May 10, 2018

I could already see the rows and columns of faces in my class, like a screen of space invaders.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

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