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blitzkrieg

[blits-kreeg] / ˈblɪtsˌkrig /


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And there’s chemo, general Blitzkrieg bombing, destroy your body’s ability to produce cells at all, or a writ small version of chemo, which is targeted clinical therapies.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026

“If the Blitzkrieg had succeeded, nothing would have changed,” he said.

From New York Times • Feb. 19, 2023

This was not by any means a Blitzkrieg, and the prerequisite for any modern war - the destruction of the enemy's communications - simply never happened.

From BBC • Mar. 5, 2022

Hitler believed that his Blitzkrieg strategy would allow his forces to prevail against larger foes before they could mobilize all their resources.

From Washington Post • Dec. 31, 2020

The Germans continue to strike Poland hard and fast, in a new kind of warfare called a Blitzkrieg, a lightning-fast war.

From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti




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