How to Use air cover in a Sentence
air cover
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Give air cover when something does not pay off.
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Aswin Saravanan,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2026
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Shifting air cover from site to site over vast distances takes time.
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Tatiana Mitrova,
Foreign Affairs,
5 Nov. 2025
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Without that air cover, the status-holders win.
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Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
2 June 2026
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Drones and jets provided air cover, striking Iranian forces that came near.
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The Week Uk,
TheWeek,
11 Apr. 2026
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The soldiers were expecting air cover from the Americans.
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Mo Rocca,
CBS News,
26 Apr. 2026
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The best leaders provide air cover, own the misses and coach individuals directly.
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Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
14 May 2026
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By providing only air cover for the rebels, our intervention left the situation on the ground to the local competing forces, tribes and militias, which were divided then and remain divided to this day.
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Thomas L. Friedman,
Mercury News,
6 Jan. 2026
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There is more discussion now about part of the security guarantee coming in the form of air cover for Ukraine, a little like the no-fly zones over Iraq back in the 1990s that were designed to prevent attacks by Saddam Hussein’s forces on minorities.
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Tim Lister,
CNN Money,
19 Aug. 2025
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