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Recent Examples of submarines
Even with large battery banks, diesel-electric submarines eventually need to recharge.
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Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 9 Feb. 2026
Autonomous robotic submarines are very much in fashion as naval planners work on future strategies in which underwater drones play a key part in patrolling and monitoring the world's oceans.
—David Szondy
february 09, New Atlas, 9 Feb. 2026
There are many games that offer similar FPV warfare experiences, including driving tanks, piloting fighter jets, and commanding submarines.
—Archie Clarke, CBS News, 6 Feb. 2026
At the time of its signing in 2010, it was seen by arms control advocates as a way to move the world away from the risk of nuclear disaster via fewer intercontinental ballistic missiles, bomber planes and long-range weapons on submarines.
—Ellen Mitchell, The Hill, 5 Feb. 2026
The military has spent three decades building its own fleet of ships and submarines with production ramped up over the past years in anticipation of possible naval showdown.
—Mostafa Salem, CNN Money, 29 Jan. 2026
Anduril is developing new defense technologies that include drones, missiles, robotic submarines, and autonomous fighter jets.
—Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2026
Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 9 Feb. 2026
Autonomous robotic submarines are very much in fashion as naval planners work on future strategies in which underwater drones play a key part in patrolling and monitoring the world's oceans.
—David Szondy
february 09, New Atlas, 9 Feb. 2026
There are many games that offer similar FPV warfare experiences, including driving tanks, piloting fighter jets, and commanding submarines.
—Archie Clarke, CBS News, 6 Feb. 2026
At the time of its signing in 2010, it was seen by arms control advocates as a way to move the world away from the risk of nuclear disaster via fewer intercontinental ballistic missiles, bomber planes and long-range weapons on submarines.
—Ellen Mitchell, The Hill, 5 Feb. 2026
The military has spent three decades building its own fleet of ships and submarines with production ramped up over the past years in anticipation of possible naval showdown.
—Mostafa Salem, CNN Money, 29 Jan. 2026
Anduril is developing new defense technologies that include drones, missiles, robotic submarines, and autonomous fighter jets.
—Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for submarines
Noun
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Potential payloads include lightweight anti-submarine torpedoes, electronic warfare equipment, acoustic decoys designed to mimic other vessels, and deployable sensor packages for intelligence collection.—
Sujita Sinha,
Interesting Engineering,
10 Feb. 2026
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Two big fish shot by like titanium torpedoes.—
Susan Casey,
Travel + Leisure,
10 Jan. 2026
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We were thrilled to have her friends and even both sets of grandparents to our house in Lakeland for popcorn chicken and Publix subs.—
Josh M. Shepherd,
The Orlando Sentinel,
13 Feb. 2026
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Fewer subs to help ramp up the tempo and maybe get the primary guys in better rhythm?—
Parker Gabriel,
Denver Post,
11 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Hume became one of modern atheism’s great intellectual heroes by rejecting this idea.—
Christopher Beha,
New Yorker,
14 Feb. 2026
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Without giving anything away, the scale of the sequence in which the heroes finally confront the AI force that threatens to destroy them is massive, and lighting and planning shots for the enormous set — which had the largest LED installation ever built in South Africa — required 600 storyboards.—
Jim Hemphill,
IndieWire,
12 Feb. 2026
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“Submarines.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/submarines. Accessed 16 Feb. 2026.
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