bazooka
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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
The real purpose of the bazooka is to bring other countries to the negotiating table.
From BBC ● Jan. 19, 2026
Germany’s promised fiscal bazooka should start firing next year, nudging growth across Europe.
From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2025
Maybe she didn't need a bazooka after all.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
"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
“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 didn’t ask for bazookas, tanks and flamethrowers,” he said.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 26, 2018
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
“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
