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blitzkrieg

[blits-kreeg] / ˈblɪtsˌkrig /


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And there’s chemo, general Blitzkrieg bombing, destroy your body’s ability to produce cells at all, or a writ small version of chemo, which is targeted clinical therapies.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026

“If the Blitzkrieg had succeeded, nothing would have changed,” he said.

From New York Times • Feb. 19, 2023

This was not by any means a Blitzkrieg, and the prerequisite for any modern war - the destruction of the enemy's communications - simply never happened.

From BBC • Mar. 5, 2022

Suspense is a more frequent mode, with lighting designer Zach Blane and sound designer/composer Roc Lee helping to conjure such events as a Blitzkrieg bombing and an escape from a moving train.

From Washington Post • Oct. 11, 2021

They had advanced so rapidly, the famous German strategy of Blitzkrieg, "lightning war," that their supply lines couldn't keep up with them.

From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson




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