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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of carpet-bomb in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of carpet-bomb in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of carpet-bomb in a Sentence

  1. Marco Rubio:

    Talk is cheap to say you're going to carpet bomb ISIS, how are you going to do that if you don't have the intelligence to do that?

  2. Marco Rubio:

    He talks tough on some of these issues. For example, he was going to carpet bomb ISIS. But the only budget he's ever voted for in his time in the Senate is a budget that cut defense spending by more than Barack Obama proposes we cut it, he voted against the Defense Authorization Act every year that it came up. And I assume that if he voted against it, he would veto it as president.

  3. Hillary Clinton:

    Promising to carpet bomb until the desert glows doesn't make you sound strong, it makes you sound like you're in over your head.

  4. Jeb Bush:

    It's a slight different view in a relatively short period of time, we're gonna carpet bomb Mosul? A city of 800,000 people? That's just not realistic, that's just not grounded in reality.

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