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
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
Deploying the trade "bazooka," as it is dubbed, is one idea being brainstormed in Brussels but still seen as a long shot.
From Barron's ● Jan. 16, 2026
Maybe she didn't need a bazooka after all.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
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
They usually carry bazookas, Kalashnikov rifles and machine guns, and arrive in Toyota pickup trucks.
From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2023
Then I realized the bazookas were actually huge, marlin-ready fishing poles.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 8, 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
“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
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