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"sense": "bombing an entire area",
"word": "地毯式轟炸"
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"ref": "2009, William Ayers, Fugitive Days: Memoirs of an Antiwar Activist",
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"ref": "2007, Doug Green, No Wife No Kids No Plan",
"text": "I watched in awe as the pans and glasses exploded halfway across the lawn, erupting from the tarp like a simulated war scenario where the plan of attack was a carpet bomb initiated from the sky.",
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"ref": "2014, Jerald Ford, When I Am King, volume 2, page 290",
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"text": "There was a whole new lexicon to learn: cluster bombs, fragmentation bombs, carpet bombs, napalm bombs, phosphorous bombs with their delicate spidery fingers stretching in all directions.",
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"ref": "2010, William Little, The Psychic Tourist: A Voyage into the Curious World of Predicting the Future",
"text": "What he really means is that the psychics' powers under test functioned more like a carpet bomb than a precision missile.",
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"text": "This underground arena features switches that trigger lasers, and a carpet bomb of the entire lower and upper levels.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2007, Doug Green, No Wife No Kids No Plan",
"text": "I watched in awe as the pans and glasses exploded halfway across the lawn, erupting from the tarp like a simulated war scenario where the plan of attack was a carpet bomb initiated from the sky.",
"type": "quotation"
},
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"ref": "2014, Jerald Ford, When I Am King, volume 2, page 290",
"text": "They were probably afraid that we would bury them in another carpet bomb of expletives.",
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