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dis troy er

  • n  a small fast lightly armored but heavily armed warship
  • n  a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to
    a destroyer of the environment

  • Tank-destroyer men say that fighting tanks with tanks is like pitting bombers against each other.
  • The destroyer did not try to outrace her pursuers; with a top speed of 33 knots, she could not have done so anyway.
  • From the bridge of the racing, rolling destroyer-minesweeper Hobson, the air craft carrier Wasp was simply a dark bulk 3,000 yards off to the left, against the mid-Atlantic night.
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  • Mother Teresa in MSU State News
    And while some may think there are issues with higher precedence this election, I would like to remind them what Mother Teresa said: "The greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion because it is a war against the child - a direct killing of the...
  • Barack Obama in AFP
    This is a smart thing to do. We have to get beyond this point -- where we think that somehow being smart on energy is a job destroyer -- in fact it is a job creator,Obama said, after a roundtable with local business people.
  • Mike Rann in Sydney Morning Herald
    They announced plans to dredge their port back in early 2002, but they haven't got cracking with it,Mr Rann said. "We've actually finished ours - we started dredging Port Adelaide in 2005, just after we won the Air Warfare Destroyer...

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