torpedo
- ammunition n.
- bomb n.
- hero n.
- projectile n.
- rocket n.
- submarine n.
- submarine sandwich n.
- hatchet man n.
- gunman n.
- assassin n.
- abrogate v.
- blast v.
- bomb v.
- break v.
- cancel v.
- defeat v.
- demolish v.
- destroy v.
- eradicate v.
- nullify v.
- obliterate v.
- overpower v.
- raid v.
- rive v.
- rout v.
- sabotage v.
- shatter v.
- shoot v.
- stifle v.
- undermine v.
- wreck v.
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Plus: Worried that big IPOs will torpedo the stock market?
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026
Hutchinson is a longtime community activist and commentator, and he had just launched a torpedo in the direction of City Hall.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2026
There are training bats, wood bats, torpedo bats and backpacks to carry them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 14, 2026
Sri Lanka said 32 sailors rescued by its navy after the torpedo attack "will remain in Sri Lanka", according to news agency AFP.
From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2026
Pondering this clerical riddle, he was surprised to see Mr. Reilly himself burst like a torpedo through the door.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
The USS Joseph P. Kennedy — a Gearing-class destroyer once equipped with Mark 32 torpedoes, anti-submarine missiles, and nuclear depth charges — has been decorated for Christmas.
From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2025
But a whopping betrayal torpedoes the friendship—and Nora’s delusions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
The drone, capable of carrying payloads including torpedoes, is expected to reach production by the end of 2028.
From Barron's ● Nov. 13, 2025
No one knows where Everett Titterington was when the first torpedoes slammed into the USS Oklahoma on that infamous day in 1941.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2024
Thousands of kamikaze planes, suicide boats, human torpedoes, and midget submarines had been prepared by our enemies.
From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac
The strange legal saga that torpedoed Jeff Shell’s career at Paramount Skydance has ended with a whimper.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026
During World War II, a British cargo ship torpedoed by a German U-boat sank nearly 3 miles under the Atlantic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
White House officials gave him the boot last summer after he torpedoed gene therapies, causing a ruckus.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026
The Iranian warship Iris Dena was given permission by India to dock three days before it was torpedoed by a US submarine, India has said.
From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2026
I had been considering that very thing, the thought of Christmas in prison being so depressing, but the memo pretty much torpedoed the idea.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
That self-centered cluelessness ended up torpedoing Pratt’s best campaign moment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026
The conflict even reached the coast of Sri Lanka, where a US submarine sank an Iranian warship, Washington's first torpedoing of a vessel since World War II.
From Barron's ● Mar. 5, 2026
Defence Minister Boris Pistorius has denied accusations of "torpedoing" the plans.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2025
“Although we sisters are supposed to be invisible, God has nevertheless given us eyes and ears,” she announces to a roomful of cardinals during an especially brutal torpedoing session.
From Salon ● Nov. 22, 2024
At the commencement of the war, the torpedoing of several battleships and cruisers by German submarines aroused no enmity within the hearts of the British tars.
From The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War by Hodgson, Edward S.
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