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buster

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as in buddy

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Recent Examples of buster Kieran Trippier has been one of those players for Newcastle United; a ripple-maker, a gloom-buster and a standard-bearer. — George Caulkin, New York Times, 16 May 2026 Caine said that, as with the operation that dropped massive bunker-buster bombs on Iranian nuclear facilities last year, Epic Fury also utilized B-2 stealth bombers, which the chairman said made a 37-hour round trip. — Dallas Morning News, 2 Mar. 2026 This dynamic alone has served as something of a churn-buster for NESN, as does its heavy investment in shoulder programming (a strategy that flies in the face of the standard RSN budget-slashing). — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 12 June 2026 One of the biggest hitters in the conventional arsenal merged with drone technology, as the US Army tested a bunker-buster warhead combined with an expendable Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) for field testing at Redstone Arsenal in Alabama. — New Atlas, 4 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for buster

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How to keep your best buddy safe and calm during the next several days.

— Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 30 June 2026
Founder Todd Graves commissioned the mural by his buddy Brody to celebrate his Times Square location’s third anniversary.

— Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 30 June 2026

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Spritzing your skin with cool water from a plant-mister creates evaporative cooling that mimics sweat and can drop your body temperature quickly.

— Hanna Wickes, Sacbee.com, 1 July 2026
People try to cool down by standing in front of a mister spraying cool water during a heat wave in Rome near the Colosseum on June 26, 2026.

— Leigh Kiniry, CBS News, 30 June 2026

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