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
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
French President Emmanuel Macron says it's time to use the EU's "trade bazooka" for the first time.
From BBC ● Jan. 18, 2026
He just wished the pockets were large enough for a chain saw, or maybe a bazooka.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
They usually carry bazookas, Kalashnikov rifles and machine guns, and arrive in Toyota pickup trucks.
From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2023
It is one thing to give Ukraine short-range anti-tank bazookas.
From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2022
“We have been fighting the pandemic with rubber bullets but what we have acquired today is equivalent, metaphorically speaking, to bazookas and machine guns,” Kenyan Health Minister Mutahi Kagwe said.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 3, 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
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
