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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

They may now decide there is no longer a need to ramp up the rhetoric around counter-tariffs and on rolling out the EU's "trade bazooka".

From BBC ● Jan. 21, 2026

He just wished the pockets were large enough for a chain saw, or maybe a bazooka.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan

They usually carry bazookas, Kalashnikov rifles and machine guns, and arrive in Toyota pickup trucks.

From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2023

"We know the bandits have all those bazookas, rocket launchers… We didn't believe they have the technical know-how and capacity to use them," retired security official Mike Ejiofor told the Vanguard newspaper.

From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2021

“The Fed went from bazookas that had mostly run out of ammo and skipped helicopters and went straight to the B-52s carpet bombing tons of cash on the financial markets and the economy,” Yardeni said.

From Washington Post ● May 8, 2020

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