salvo
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The suit is the latest salvo in a legal dispute that began in late 2025.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
But it was the sight of loosehead prop Ox Nche stampeding through Ollie Chessum and Jamie George, with the England defence desperately, vainly backpedalling, that summed up a brutally chastening opening salvo.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
In his opening salvo as the new chairman of the Federal Reserve, Kevin Warsh pushed back on the central bank’s practice of providing markets with signals on future rate policy.
From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026
Bass launched her first salvo over the weekend, as the tally of mail-in votes made clear that Raman would edge out Spencer Pratt to challenge her in the fall election.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026
When the zigzagging UFO comes he lays in a salvo of torpedoes only if the asteroid storm isn't too heavy.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
With the official status of talks between Washington and Tehran uncertain and ahead of a meeting in Pakistan on Monday with key regional players, daily salvoes of strikes across the region have continued unabated.
From Barron's ● Mar. 29, 2026
The tone of the early salvoes dismayed Noura Bittar Søborg, a Syrian asylum seeker who fled Homs in 2011 and has managed to bring her father, mother and younger sister to Denmark.
From The Guardian ● May 30, 2015
Artillery salvoes were fired from an area that Nalyvaichenko said is under the control of a Cossack unit manned by Russian citizens.
From US News ● Feb. 15, 2015
Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile system has intercepted many of the rocket salvoes.
From Reuters ● Jul. 14, 2014
Meanwhile the shots thundered from Bau, the crashing salvoes, however, drew towards the south-east of Flensburg.
From Withered Leaves. Vol. III.(of III) A Novel by Rudolf von Gottschall
By summer 2025, Moscow was deploying hundreds of the drones in nighttime salvos.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
We are already seeing the first salvos of this escalated warfare.
From Salon ● Jul. 1, 2026
Even as Iran fires regular salvos at the base, AFP did not see any signs of a heavy security presence there.
From Barron's ● Apr. 6, 2026
That moment in Birmingham has been one of the few opening salvos to go the way of England, however.
From BBC ● Nov. 20, 2025
He too had felt that ascending chill of déjà vu as he read the opening salvos of Mendel’s paper.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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