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- noun Alternative spelling of
battle-cruiser .
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Examples
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Who can forget the Royal Navy's life-and-death hunt for the mighty German "Bismarck," and loss of the famed battlecruiser "Hood," or the sinking of "Repulse" and "Prince of Wales" off Singapore by Japanese bombers?
Eric Margolis: BRITAIN MAY PULL THE PLUG ON THE ROYAL NAVY Eric Margolis 2010
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-- "That favor we owed you": I'm sure this has come up before, but the favor was owed when the Justice League (and friends) saved the Anti-Matter Earth from the Void Hound (then inhabiting a Qwardian battlecruiser) back in JLA #114 (July 2005).
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Searing phaser fire stabbed out from above and below the windows, and a couple of burning torpedoes soared up from below, converging on the neck of the Klingon battlecruiser.
Star Trek The Next Generation® David A. McIntee 2011
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Who can forget the Royal Navy's life-and-death hunt for the mighty German "Bismarck," and loss of the famed battlecruiser "Hood," or the sinking of "Repulse" and "Prince of Wales" off Singapore by Japanese bombers?
Eric Margolis: BRITAIN MAY PULL THE PLUG ON THE ROYAL NAVY Eric Margolis 2010
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Searing phaser fire stabbed out from above and below the windows, and a couple of burning torpedoes soared up from below, converging on the neck of the Klingon battlecruiser.
Star Trek The Next Generation® David A. McIntee 2011
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Who can forget the Royal Navy's life-and-death hunt for the mighty German "Bismarck," and loss of the famed battlecruiser "Hood," or the sinking of "Repulse" and "Prince of Wales" off Singapore by Japanese bombers?
Eric Margolis: BRITAIN MAY PULL THE PLUG ON THE ROYAL NAVY Eric Margolis 2010
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Their orders were to continue monitoring the asteroid, but if the Eridani ignited the engines before the battlecruiser arrived, they were to attempt sabotage, at whatever cost.
365 tomorrows » 2008 » January : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2008
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After all, there was no room for children on an IG battlecruiser.
Star Trek: Myriad Universes: Shattered Light David R. George III 2010
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Sam (Amanda Tapping) and Cam (Ben Browder) take to the skies aboard the newly outfitted battlecruiser Odyssey with James Merek (Currie Graham) of the IOA along to make things difficult for them.
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Now, we have one infantry unit paint a target from a mile away and an offshore battlecruiser sends a missile 200 miles to destroy that building with minimum collateral.
Capitalism: You Look Marvelous, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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