: a canister of small individual bombs that is dropped from an aircraft
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Under some conditions, Varma can now consider investing in such a manufacturer if, for example, the controversial weapons such as cluster bombs account for no more than 5 percent of sales.—Lara Jakes, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2025 That’s what happened before as a result of failures at the CCW to deal with landmines in the 1990s and cluster bombs in the 2000s.—IEEE Spectrum, 14 Apr. 2016 Campbell, a University of Colorado grad who lives in Ridgway, faced other kinds of potentially fatal risks beyond his control — cluster bombs, missiles, artillery fire — on multiple trips to Ukraine since 2022 as a conflict journalist.—John Meyer, Denver Post, 25 Mar. 2025 In investigations after the fact, humanitarian organizations also raised concerns about several factors in NATO's conduct, including the targeting of a Belgrade TV station and the use of cluster bombs, which take a disproportionate civilian death toll.—Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for cluster bomb
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