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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A pea-sized projectile is hurtled into a target at speeds of up to sixteen thousand miles an hour.
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Let us suppose an engineer wishes to fire a projectile faster than light.
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Only those electrons which were struck by one of these projectiles would be effected.
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The projectile was imperfectly aimed but exploded in Verdun, smashing down part of the Archbishop's palace.
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The testimony of Venus is that aerial fragmentation of projectiles is extremely important.
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There was one sizeable exception: that of a body thrown, a projectile .