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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It was a sport in which a single defeat in September could torpedo your entire year, which gave every game an element of danger.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
The underwater test-fire of the "super-speed" Zam-2.0 torpedo system took place on Thursday "to confirm the successful technical updating" of the weapon, the Korean Central News Agency said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026
"At high speeds underwater, a torpedo generates significant noise, making it easier to detect," Yang said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026
The Royal Navy said one of Rice's close encounters was a torpedo being fired towards the boat he was on, only for the missile to go beneath the hull.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
He strides up, barrel-chested and sure of himself, like a torpedo.
From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini
UC-30 was carrying 18 mines and six torpedoes, leaving the submarine packed with explosives.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026
Stocks of torpedoes are to go up by 230 percent and those of surface-to-air missiles by 30 percent.
From Barron's ● Apr. 8, 2026
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
U-boats, Mr. Moorhouse tells us, were also plagued by malfunctioning torpedoes, mechanical failures and, eventually, the incessant—and often successful—depth-charge attacks of Allied warships.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025
They’d watched cranes lowering torpedoes into their subs.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
In an unprecedented decision last year, a crucial summary of the Global Environment Outlook, a flagship UN scientific report, was torpedoed as nations rowed over fossil fuels.
From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026
You’re also a gay actor portraying someone who, at the time, would have torpedoed his career by coming out.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 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
A flurry of miscues torpedoed McIlroy out of the lead entirely for a brief moment on Saturday before he steaded himself to finish 1-over for the day and 11-under overall.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026
Where was the Russian submarine that had torpedoed the ship?
From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys
Perhaps the Rogers campaign is correct, and El-Sayed’s connection to the Twitch streamer will prove to be uniquely toxic, torpedoing his chances in the general.
From Slate ● Aug. 7, 2026
Indian strategic affairs expert Brahma Chellaney wrote on X that the US torpedoing of the Iranian warship in India's "maritime neighbourhood" was "more than a battlefield episode" - calling it a "strategic embarrassment" for Delhi.
From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2026
A US submarine this week torpedoing an Iranian warship during the Middle East conflict raised the crucial question of who controls the seas during wartime.
From Barron's ● Mar. 6, 2026
“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
We will admit that the torpedoing happens at a time when only American and British war craft are visible in Grand Harbor.
From Dave Darrin on Mediterranean Service or, With Dan Dalzell on European Duty by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
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