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[blits] / blɪts /


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Bloomberg said the two sides were looking at reductions on some goods including US energy and agricultural products, suggesting they will extend a one-year truce agreed in 2025 following Trump's global tariff blitz.

From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026

Meanwhile, a "fraud blitz" involving 500 new officers will be part of a crackdown on gangs who are accused of using Post Offices and High Street shops to "launder illicit billions", the Metro reports.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

Jaxson Dart left the preseason on just his third offensive snap after New York’s line failed to pick up a blitz, and that shakes confidence in the quarterback behind an uncertain front five.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

However, it now looks like rewarding the “check takers” of the artificial-intelligence spending blitz was an easy way to win in 2026.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026

Convinced that the 13 women deserved more than a brief blitz of media attention, the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh decided to honor the Mercury 13 in 2007.

From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson

As he blitzes podcasts, Substack and beyond, we explore why the younger Biden is opening up now—and what he wants.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026

It blitzes together a very respectable chickpea salad in minutes.

From Salon ● Apr. 21, 2026

It funds Presler: his voter-registration blitzes, volunteer trainings, and aggressive get-out-the-vote operations.

From Slate ● Dec. 8, 2025

But as one minister remarked of the news blitzes before budgets: "it's not always as clever as it looks."

From BBC ● Nov. 15, 2025

Planning continental blitzes is a favorite past-time around high-level strategic commands; it keeps the boys in trim.

From Check and Checkmate by Walter M. Miller

South African Klaasen blitzed a brutal 63 off 26 before he fell to Nathan Ellis.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

How could they not be a little worried to be facing a reanimated zombie team that blitzed 56-win Boston?

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026

Or, perhaps, it’s simply that triples really is best: a blitzed corn chip base, a sweet corn body and a final, salty flurry of chips on top.

From Salon ● Apr. 16, 2026

In its two March friendlies, the U.S. was blitzed by Belgium 5-2 and Portugal 2-0.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2026

She shoved open the door and blitzed down the brightly lit corridor, her footfalls echoing all around her.

From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older

Just as the on-court Spurs improved through the season before blitzing through the first two rounds of the playoffs, the Jackals have sharpened their edge game after game.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026

They’re a little more involved in the running game now, Cover 2 things and corner pressures, blitzing off the edge, they’ve done a really nice job.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2026

Pinheiro Braathen had led the way in the first run with Elezi Cannaferina blitzing the field in the second.

From Barron's ● Jan. 27, 2026

The humble spice grinder that makes chopping, crushing or blitzing feel like magic.

From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2025

So right now, I channeled my inner line-backer blitzing the quarterback.

From "Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel" by Harlan Coben




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