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# bombing

noun

«bombing» in the English dictionary: in Wikipedia — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## In Wikipedia

Source: the Wikipedia dictionary, from the English Wikipedia articles Mova reads whole. Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). A draft: made natively by Nautilus, one of Mova's workers, from Mova's own counts; not reviewed. Not part of Mova: never in its repository, releases or programs.

### Counted by Mova

96 uses in 54 of the 531 articles of the Wikipedia school's corpus; as a noun in 96 of 96. By the class of the article: city 29, country 12, institute 4, other 4. Most often with: «raid», «city», «damage», «target», «ally».

### Examples

- This also coincided with a new "carpet bombing" marketing campaign by CMO Jan Brandt to distribute as many free trial AOL trial disks as possible through nonconventional distribution partners. — [AOL](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL), sentence 52 («wiki:AOL:52»)
- The bombing attack on destroyer USS Cole took place in Aden on 12 October 2000. — [Aden](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aden), sentence 207 («wiki:Aden:207»)
- La Madeleine which was completely rebuilt after the bombings of 1944. — [Angoulême](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angoulême), sentence 42 («wiki:Angoulême:42»)

### Note

Draft: made natively by Nautilus from the Wikipedia school's corpus; the counts and examples are Mova's own, the meaning is the pupils' dictionary's; no sense of this source is written yet.

### Sources

- From Wikipedia, [«AOL»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
- From Wikipedia, [«Aden»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aden), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
- From Wikipedia, [«Angoulême»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angoulême), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
- Examples quote Wikipedia; this block is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.