Auxiliary in example sentence

The operation, held annually and comprising 5-10 combat vessels, 1-2 auxiliary ships, and 2-4 maritime-patrol aircraft, includes forces from 26 European navies, and has undoubtedly helped to discourage, if not end, pirate attacks.

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It involved some really cool auxiliary percussion instruments, like the bongos, timpani, and timbales, and cowbell.

A second problem is a practical problem, and it's the problem of auxiliary hypotheses.

Auxiliary hypotheses are assumptions that scientists are making that they may or may not even be aware that they're making.

Well, in hindsight we can say that astronomers were making two auxiliary hypotheses, both of which we would now say were incorrect.

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