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How to use the word intercept in a Sentence?

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If we had the LSST online prior to `Oumuamua’s passage through the inner solar system, we would have discovered it much earlier in its trajectory, we could have had the opportunity to send a space mission to intercept and rendezvous with the object because it came so close to the Earth. Therefore, in the future when we discover more interstellar objects, we will be able to send a dedicated space mission to an interstellar object.

Darryl Seligman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Over the last six months or so there’s been a trend towards larger gaps between missile raids, but more missiles used at once when they do, to make it harder for defenses to intercept them all.

Justin Bronk

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The 135 is an unarmed aircraft. Why does the PLAN consider it necessary to intercept carrying missiles when the intent was to visually identify the aircraft? Doing this is potentially dangerous and could lead to a major and tragic incident.

Peter Layton

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When the detection equipment finds the drone and identifies the operator's location, we can very rapidly get that information to a ground intercept team who can then go make contact with that drone operator and essentially get them to stop flying that drone.

James Peaco III

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I am very impressed and concerned with the development of Russia's electronic warfare capability. You know, the last 20 years, we were focused correctly, on cellphones, and terrorist networks and in trying to intercept and crack into those.

Ben Hodges

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We look at Russia as a pure adversary [now], i am very impressed and concerned with the development of Russia's electronic warfare capability. You know, the last 20 years, we were focused correctly, on cellphones, and terrorist networks and in trying to intercept and crack into those.

Ben Hodges

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The defendant allegedly brought these semi-automatic weapons and high-capacity magazines up from the south, sometimes transporting them in a duffle bag by bus. Dozens of the firearms were loaded and four are considered assault weapons. The NYPD worked diligently to intercept these deadly weapons before they hit our streets, bronxites are dying from gunfire and we can not tolerate one more illegal gun in our community.

Darcel Clark

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This amount of fentanyl and methamphetamine is enough to ruin countless lives and fund transnational criminal organizations, i’m proud of our officers’ efforts at all Ports of Entry within the San Diego Field Office to intercept this and all smuggling attempts.

Pete Flores

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If we stick to the U.S. version, the Russians now have a means for using small satellites to intercept a target in orbit and destroy it, this is a serious capability because the U.S. militarys biggest advantage over its rivals is an immense command and control plus intelligence and surveillance network orbiting our planet. Without it, the U.S. military suffers and struggles to fulfill its mission.

Miguel Miranda

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The visual inspection occurred to ensure the safety of coalition personnel at At Tanf garrison. Once the F-15 pilot identified the aircraft as a Mahan Air passenger plane, the F-15 safely opened distance from the aircraft, the professional intercept was conducted in accordance with international standards.

The US statement

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Two Russian Su-35 aircraft unsafely intercepted a P-8A Poseidon patrol aircraft assigned to U.S. 6th Fleet over the Mediterranean Sea May 26, 2020, the intercept was determined to be unsafe and unprofessional due to the Russian pilots taking close station on each wing of the P-8A simultaneously, restricting the P-8A's ability to safely maneuver, and lasted a total of 64 minutes.

The US Navy

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We're not going to dance to Boris Johnson tune, it's obvious what Boris Johnson's up to. Boris Johnson wants to intercept this bill having lost control of parliament and stop us finishing the task in hand.

Keir Starmer

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

This was the first GBI salvo intercept of a complex, threat-representative ICBM target, and it was a critical milestone.

Air Force

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Even if you had an intercept of the Crown Prince saying,' Yes, kill Jamal Khashoggi,' there would still be an analytical piece to that, the idea that The CIA or NSA or any of the intelligence organizations have to come up with DNA-style proof is something that both politicians and practitioners of intelligence know is sort of a false premise.

Steve Hall

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The crime in Albania is much worse than it is here, other people that have made large withdrawals [from Albanian banks] have had people intercept them and take their money.

Rustem Kazazi

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

It did the job because we know, as a fact, that the military did not come and intercept the aircraft.

Simon Hardy

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

And this is because the agent told me she thought I joined Al Qaeda because they paid off my Discover card. That’s what it takes to fool the FBI, so, because they thought I joined, and I was basically judged guilty until proven innocent, they started monitoring everything and they saw they were buying laptops, ten at once, tablets on eBay. And, you gotta think, this is a dream come true. We intercept the laptops, we get the IP addresses, maybe put some GPS’s, some microphones in and we deliver them right into the hands of Al Qaeda. And they spy. And me, well I’m not coming home anyway so no harm, no foul. As long as you’re not me.

Matt Schrier

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

While we are still investigating the incident, initial reports from the US aircrew characterized the intercept as unprofessional. The issue is being addressed with China through appropriate diplomatic and military channels.

Air Force Lt. Col. Hodge

Found on CNN
6 years ago

While we are still investigating the incident, initial reports from the U.S. aircrew characterized the intercept as unprofessional. The issue is being addressed with China through appropriate diplomatic and military channels.

Air Force Lt. Col. Hodge

Found on CNN
6 years ago

It is not revealed in any other intercept.

John Bolton

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

I am very confident in the systems and procedures will employ to intercept a North Korean ICBM were they to shoot it toward our territory.

James Syring

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

I guess you can watch the video and see for yourself how those intercepts are, if you want to intercept people over international waters, we just want to encourage them to do that in a safe way.

Dan Naim

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

On April 14, a U.S. Air Force RC-135 aircraft flying a routine route in international airspace over the Baltic Sea was intercepted by a Russian Su-27 in an unsafe and unprofessional manner, this intercept comes shortly after the unsafe Russian encounters with USS Donald Cook.

Navy Capt. Danny Hernandez

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

This unsafe and unprofessional air intercept has the potential to cause serious harm and injury to all aircrews involved, more importantly, the unsafe and unprofessional actions of a single pilot have the potential to unnecessarily escalate tensions between countries.

Navy Capt. Danny Hernandez

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

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