bazooka
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They wanted to be a bazooka, but so far they're positively popgun.
From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2026
The bazooka was designed as a deterrent—and it seems to have deterred.
From Slate ● Jan. 23, 2026
Markets may eventually catch on—but only if they stop looking for a bazooka and start paying attention to the plumbing.
From Barron's ● Dec. 31, 2025
The college game isn’t as simple as getting a money bazooka and showering a fancy name.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2025
He just wished the pockets were large enough for a chain saw, or maybe a bazooka.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
The game, set in a fantasy world with several kingdoms at war over the control of magic, abandons the tried-and-true formula of arming players with an arsenal of guns and bazookas.
From New York Times ● Aug. 22, 2023
"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
Then I realized the bazookas were actually huge, marlin-ready fishing poles.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 8, 2021
“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
“I’d like to have some bazookas of my own, like the ones in Commando. That would be beautiful,” I said, and we laughed.
From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah
