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- adjective military Having
upgraded thearmor of a fighting vehicle.
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Examples
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It took years for the troops to get all the body armor and up-armored vehicles they begged for.
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Can hardly speak and in an effort to stop the enormous up-armored Chevy Expedition he is driving in front of the compound gate he drives into a mature tree and uproots it.
MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010
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That fall, Congress passed a military supplemental that earmarked hundreds of millions of dollars for body armor, and up-armored Humvees and IED detection equipment.
Scott Lilly: Looking for the Full Measure of Jack Murtha Scott Lilly 2010
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This time, however, the U.S. should help the process along with a concerted and targeted aid package: military aid that can only be used to fight the Taliban (counterinsurgency training and equipment like up-armored humvees etc.) as opposed to untargeted military aid, plus civilian assistance to build local institutions (especially schools, to provide an alternative to the madrassas).
Today in the Northwest Frontier Province - Swampland - TIME.com 2008
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Can hardly speak and in an effort to stop the enormous up-armored Chevy Expedition he is driving in front of the compound gate he drives into a mature tree and uproots it.
MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010
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That fall, Congress passed a military supplemental that earmarked hundreds of millions of dollars for body armor, and up-armored Humvees and IED detection equipment.
Scott Lilly: Looking for the Full Measure of Jack Murtha 2010
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Under these circumstances, death comes in a multitude of disguises -- from a great distance via cruise missiles or Predator drones and close in at checkpoints where up-armored American troops, fingers on triggers, have no way of telling a suicide car bomber from a confused or panicked local with a couple of kids in the backseat.
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Can hardly speak and in an effort to stop the enormous up-armored Chevy Expedition he is driving in front of the compound gate he drives into a mature tree and uproots it.
MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010
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That fall, Congress passed a military supplemental that earmarked hundreds of millions of dollars for body armor, and up-armored Humvees and IED detection equipment.
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Can hardly speak and in an effort to stop the enormous up-armored Chevy Expedition he is driving in front of the compound gate he drives into a mature tree and uproots it.
MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010
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