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  • noun Plural form of sonar.

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Examples

  • The presumption in Baghdad is that somebody was paid a large bribe to buy the "sonars" and does not want to admit they are junk.

    Rezo.net Patrick Cockburn 2010

  • The Navy agreed to avoid using sonar in Washington's inland waters, but we saw on April 8th how those agreements can be ignored when the USS San Francisco tested sonars near Dungeness Spit at harmful levels, demonstrating that the Navy holds training and testing at a higher priority than safety of marine mammals.

    Anti-submarine Warfare Training Kills Marine Life 2009

  • In response, sewer anarchists will outfit their dirigibles with DIY sonars or laser scanners.

    Sewer Zeppelins for the Era of Infrastructural Anarchy & Other Roman Tales 2009

  • In response, sewer anarchists will outfit their dirigibles with DIY sonars or laser scanners.

    Archive 2009-07-01 2009

  • I went with him to Thompson Marconi Sonar out at Paramatta: pretty impressive technology - they build everything from towed arrays for seismographic work to mine-hunter sonars and of course sonars for submarines.

    Journal for 28 October Alex Allan 2009

  • Songs are probably fitted with flank-array sonars of French design, which will hardly cheer up enthusiasts of a rapprochement with President Sarkozy.

    Archive 2007-11-11 2007

  • Sailors learn to deploy minefields, explosive ordnance and sonars, leading to irreparable harm to marine mammals and fisheries and the potential release of hazardous materials into sensitive marine ecosystems.

    Anti-submarine Warfare Training Kills Marine Life 2009

  • Songs are probably fitted with flank-array sonars of French design, which will hardly cheer up enthusiasts of a rapprochement with President Sarkozy.

    Timely Reminder of Need To Take Stock of Our Defences 2007

  • In her recent collection, Sooner, a wide range of short poetic fragments and longer, narrative poems, Christakos negotiates the sonars of expectation, desire, arousal, sequentiality, and perception.

    Two poems from Margaret Christakos Lemon Hound 2007

  • In her recent collection, Sooner, a wide range of short poetic fragments and longer, narrative poems, Christakos negotiates the sonars of expectation, desire, arousal, sequentiality, and perception.

    Archive 2007-07-01 Lemon Hound 2007

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