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Re:Tagging Along with Italy’s Unexploded Bomb–Hunters by smegsicle on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @04:10PM (#31828558)
the use of an en-dash rather than a regular hyphen implies that these unexploded hunters are in particular looking for unexploded bombs

see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/En-dash#Attributive_compounds

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Re:Tagging Along with Italy’s Unexploded Bomb–Hunters by goatcode on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @05:40PM (#31829415)
Bless you for being a rare person who understands the semantics of such things. For too long passenger carrying airplanes has struggled under such a weight.
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