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
Germany’s promised fiscal bazooka should start firing next year, nudging growth across Europe.
From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2025
They could hide a bazooka and no one would notice.
From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers
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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
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
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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