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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

Yet that’s likely just the opening salvo of a disruptive weather system that could affect the 38-day competition, which kicks off next week with games in Mexico, Canada and the U.S.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026

But Kuwait said it received 30 Iranian missiles and drones—a wartime salvo by any reckoning.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026

From the starting gun to the final salvo, they had rowed as if they could keep going at the same pace for another two miles or ten.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

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

Gen Surovikin, who has a reputation for harsh methods, said Ukraine's Himars salvoes had damaged Kherson's Antonivsky Bridge and the Kakhovka hydroelectric dam, blocking traffic along those key arteries.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2022

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

It hung above the dumpy freighter, and there were salvoes of all the guns in the fleet.

From The Invaders by Murray Leinster

Most salvos have been aimed at bases hosting U.S. forces and have been intercepted, U.S. and Jordanian officials said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

We are already seeing the first salvos of this escalated warfare.

From Salon ● Jul. 1, 2026

"Within days, however, Iran had shifted to smaller, more precisely targeted salvos, conserving remaining missiles and drones for specific high-value targets and concentrating fire where even near-misses cause significant damage."

From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026

The statement said the latest salvos were in response to attacks on its own steel industries.

From Barron's ● Apr. 3, 2026

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