bazooka
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They wanted to be a bazooka, but so far they're positively popgun.
From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2026
Set aside for a moment whether this two-seat, 577-hp luxury convertible, this bazooka with a mink silencer, is any fun to drive.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 2026
The bazooka was designed as a deterrent—and it seems to have deterred.
From Slate ● Jan. 23, 2026
Germany’s promised fiscal bazooka should start firing next year, nudging growth across Europe.
From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2025
They could hide a bazooka and no one would notice.
From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers
"We know the bandits have all those bazookas, rocket launchers… We didn't believe they have the technical know-how and capacity to use them," retired security official Mike Ejiofor told the Vanguard newspaper.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2021
The elated health minister, Mutahi Kagwe, said that the country had “been fighting this virus with rubber bullets,” but now had finally acquired the metaphorical equivalent of “machine guns, bazookas, and tanks.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2021
“The Fed went from bazookas that had mostly run out of ammo and skipped helicopters and went straight to the B-52s carpet bombing tons of cash on the financial markets and the economy,” Yardeni said.
From Washington Post ● May 8, 2020
When he joined the BOE’s rate-setting committee in 2006, he said, opportunities for linguistic ingenuity were scarce, “so bazookas or sledgehammers weren’t on the table.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2016
The noise was like a cannon barrage combined with a football stadium crowd—like every Patriots fan in New England was charging us with bazookas.
From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan
