gunpowder

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One Tehran local told the BBC that the city had been turned into a "ghost town" with empty streets and a lingering smell of gunpowder.

From BBC • Mar. 6, 2026

Authorities vowed to stabilize investment with more fiscal gunpowder from the central government, according to the Xinhua readout of the gathering.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 11, 2025

Guns have been widely discussed over the last decade, in books from David Silverman’s “Thundersticks,” on colonial America, to David Cressy’s “Saltpeter,” on gunpowder, to Priya Satia’s “Empire of Guns,” on the Industrial Revolution.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025

At the top of the hill is a stone turret, the eponymous powder house, where the British army arrived in 1774 to seize a stock of gunpowder.

From Slate • Mar. 27, 2025

Trust Glenn to have an ounce of gunpowder on his person, just in case.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck