noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bomber jacket
stealth bomber/aircraft/fighter etc (= a plane made using this system )
suicide bomber
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
heavy
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They were flying the route taken by the heavy bombers 50 years before.
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Last in the repertoire were the B-52 heavy bombers .
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Two heavy bombers moved across the sky at about ten thousand feet.
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Few bomber crews - if in fact any - exceeded this total, and certainly not in heavy bombers.
strategic
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The second type of target is strategic bomber bases.
■ NOUN
dive
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Originally torpedo bombers first then high level bombers and dive bombers.
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The first wave was composed of 183 planes: level bombers , dive bombers, torpedo planes, and fighters.
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Our dive bombers found numerous carrier-type aircraft lined up on the apron of the field and quickly set them ablaze.
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This force, under my command, consisted of 36 fighters, 54 dive bombers , and 90 level bombers.
fighter
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From the latest fighter bomber , to something a little older.
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Knowing that it would call up the fighter bombers , the convoy scattered into whatever cover could be found.
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The planes are returning to the United States, although F-One-Eleven fighter bombers are staying on.
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At one point Dostam used fighter bombers to attack the presidential palace and defence ministry.
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Pentagon officials acknowledge using two Stealth fighter bombers to drop 2,000 pound bombs.
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F-one-eleven fighter bombers have been flying from the base for more than twenty years.
jacket
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Wearing jeans and bomber jacket with no make-up, she wasn't trying to be a big deal at all.
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In this crossover category are thigh-length parkas that offer more protection on wind-whipped city streets than the old bomber jackets .
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He was wearing a black zip-up leather bomber jacket .
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He was wearing a black bomber jacket , red T-shirt and faded jeans.
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By the look of him he might well have left a genuine World War Two leather bomber jacket in the bedroom.
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Co-star Steve McFadden, who plays Phil Mitchell, settled for a bomber jacket with blue jeans.
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The man was aged 25-30, wearing a leather bomber jacket .
pilot
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The two cases attracting the most public attention are those of former bomber pilot Kelly Flinn and Gen.
stealth
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After the Gulf war everybody wanted Tornados or the Stealth bomber .
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The Air Force has made its radar-evading B-2 stealth bombers even harder to find in the air.
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Congress left itself the option of forbidding line-item vetoes of major program appropriations, such as funding more Stealth bombers .
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Is it because we got the Stealth bomber ?
suicide
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Can suicide bombers really be considered cowards?
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Anonymous but infamous in death, they are the suicide bombers who killed 14 people last month in a Jerusalem market.
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The bomb, it said, had been planted by a suicide bomber , named as Abu Yasser.
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The homes of suicide bombers will be sealed, then destroyed, he said.
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A woman Tiger suicide bomber then assassinated Gandhi.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But it was unlucky 13 when he took off from an airfield in Yorkshire in a Halifax bomber .
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Gentlemen, you could very well be using this gravel strip as an emergency landing field for huge bombers.
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His heavy gold rings and his bomber jacket and his wide-foot stance had added up to a man of experience in my eyes.
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Knowing that it would call up the fighter bombers, the convoy scattered into whatever cover could be found.
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Three of the admiral's aides, along with the bomber , also died in the attack.
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What is left of the bombers is their upper torsos, their heads and their faces.