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  • noun Alternative form of cluster bomb.

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Examples

  • Both Islamists and Israelis know full well that when they attack, be it with a suicide vest or a clusterbomb missile, that civilians will surely die.

    Dear wanks: What exactly is it with you and Israel, anyway? CC 2009

  • Not the treatment of the Palestinians, the caging and starving of those on the Gaza Strip, the hundreds of thousands of clusterbomb droplets left behind in Lebanon, the U.S. military bases on Arab soil, Abu Ghraib, the Mideast tyrannies propped up by American money and influence -- these are secondary.

    Ratfink Writes New Book: James Wolcott Wolcott, James, 1952- 2009

  • Both Islamists and Israelis know full well that when they attack, be it with a suicide vest or a clusterbomb missile, that civilians will surely die.

    Dear wanks: What exactly is it with you and Israel, anyway? CC 2009

  • Talked, again, about Hillary (not gonna vote for a ban on clusterbomb use in heavily populated areas because I don't want to look weak on national security) Clinton not actually being under depleted uranium sniper fire and if there was some sort of spiritual epiphany she had when she was 12 walking through an afternoon field of flowers when God appeared to her and told her to take back Orleans.

    Heath Calvert: The Debate Over Our Checkbooks: Our Livelihoods and Our Liberty 2008

  • One saw an undamaged SAM launcher and streaked toward it, dropping Rockeye clusterbomb canisters that fell short but spread over a hundred bomblets all over the area.

    Red Storm Rising Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1986

  • Capt. clusterbomb is an odious, wretched excuse for a human being who has personally caused massive death and destruction, then sanctimoniously believes in his righteousness because he professes belief in ancient tribal myths he misconstrues as facts, myths that he thinks can erase his grievous crimes.

    The Nation: Top Stories John Nichols 2010

  • Capt. clusterbomb is an odious, wretched excuse for a human being who has personally caused massive death and destruction, then sanctimoniously believes in his righteousness because he professes belief in ancient tribal myths he misconstrues as facts, myths that he thinks can erase his grievous crimes.

    The Nation: Top Stories John Nichols 2010

  • Some of them have used a clusterbomb and seen the resulting ground human meat.

    The Nation: Top Stories 2009

  • Yep, the economic collapse was a clusterbomb a lot of people saw coming all over the world, even before the ...

    Dangerous Intersection 2009

  • In that press release and on its website HRW provided this picture as evidence identifying the weapon debris shown as a Russian RBK-250 clusterbomb.

    Moon of Alabama 2008

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