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
The result is a fastball that Quijano describes as “a short little bazooka at 90 miles an hour.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 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
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
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
“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
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
