bazooka
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But it’s not as extreme of an intervention as Mario Draghi’s “whatever it takes” pledge to preserve the euro or Ben Bernanke’s bazooka program in response to the collapse of Lehman Brothers, experts say.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026
He may also enjoy showing off his new tariff bazooka.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 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
One end of the tube was wedged between his bars at stomach level, and the other protruded halfway into the narrow gallery space between cell bars and fence, like a miniature bazooka.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
The boss of one well-known high street business told me they are even hoping there won't be any big bazookas.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026
Then I realized the bazookas were actually huge, marlin-ready fishing poles.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 8, 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
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
A retired police chief in New Haven, Connecticut, told The New York Times, “I was offered tanks, bazookas, anything I wanted.”
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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