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After the war ended in the Pacific, he was stationed in Japan and was part of a unit that visited Hiroshima, destroyed by an atomic bomb dropped on Aug. 6, 1945.
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Mike Danahey, Chicago Tribune, 5 June 2025
Eminem has had a strong year, with his July 2024 album The Death Of Slim Shady (Coup De Grâce) debuting at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and selling 281,000 album-equivalent units in its first week.
—Armon Sadler, VIBE.com, 4 June 2025
Amid a poor shooting slump in the preseason, Josh Hart volunteered to join the second unit.
—Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 24 May 2025
All of the accessible units come with features such as roll-in showers or accessible bathtubs, visual fire alarms, visual telephone notification devices, portable tub seats, text telephone devices, and televisions with closed captioning.
—Mae Hamilton, Travel + Leisure, 24 May 2025
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Mike Danahey, Chicago Tribune, 5 June 2025
Eminem has had a strong year, with his July 2024 album The Death Of Slim Shady (Coup De Grâce) debuting at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and selling 281,000 album-equivalent units in its first week.
—Armon Sadler, VIBE.com, 4 June 2025
Amid a poor shooting slump in the preseason, Josh Hart volunteered to join the second unit.
—Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 24 May 2025
All of the accessible units come with features such as roll-in showers or accessible bathtubs, visual fire alarms, visual telephone notification devices, portable tub seats, text telephone devices, and televisions with closed captioning.
—Mae Hamilton, Travel + Leisure, 24 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unit
Noun
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For example, there were separate legal entities for KFC Asia and KFC Europe.—
Nathan Goldman,
Forbes.com,
6 June 2025
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These are very different entities than NPR and PBS—some have roots in the counter-propaganda operations of the Second World War and the Cold War, and all of them are still seen as tools of U.S. soft power—but they are designed to be editorially independent, and often do produce good journalism.—
Jon Allsop,
New Yorker,
6 June 2025
Noun
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Kemp told police his car had been broken into and several items were stolen.—
David Matthews,
New York Daily News,
28 May 2025
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The lovebirds also shared a few items and split before the check came, letting security take care of the bill, the gossip outlet adds.—
Madeleine Marr,
Miami Herald,
27 May 2025
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“Unit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unit. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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