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But close to daybreak, a German warplane bombed the chateau, leaving a crater in the earth and a trail of carnage.—Amy Sohn, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2025 Last year, Taipei tracked over 3,000 Chinese warplane sorties in its air defense zone, nearly double the figure recorded in each of the previous two years, according to PLATracker, a public dataset maintained by U.S. analysts Gerald C. Brown and Benjamin Lewis.—John Feng, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 June 2025 Israel time on Tuesday — hours before that ceasefire was scheduled to take effect — Israeli warplanes carried out their heaviest round of attacks of the whole war.—Daniel Estrin, NPR, 25 June 2025 President Donald Trump on Saturday night announced American warplanes dropped bombs on three nuclear sites in Iran, with the U.S. officially entering the war more than a week after Israel’s initial attack.—Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 23 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for warplane
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