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Iron Dome
[ ahy-ern dohm ]
noun
- an Israeli air defense system that uses radar to detect incoming rockets, calculates whether they will hit Israeli towns, and launches missiles to shoot them down.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Iron Dome1
First recorded in 2010–15
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Example Sentences
Nevertheless, should Iron Dome funding come up for a vote this week, it is expected to receive overwhelming support.
From The Daily Beast
Without an Iron Dome defense system, air raid sirens or even bomb shelters, people resign themselves to their fate.
From The Daily Beast
The Iron Dome, increasingly, ensures that those rockets never land.
From The Daily Beast
The reports of Iron Dome intercepts also made me feel better.
From The Daily Beast
Iron Dome anti-rocket batteries have been deployed in the northern regions of Safed, Amakim, and Haifa.
From The Daily Beast
These pots are set upon three furnaces bound with iron hoops, and they are covered with a kind of iron dome.
From Project Gutenberg
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