salvo
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The filings were the latest salvo in the ongoing fight between two of the most powerful entities in the global game.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
The burger wars are back, with the latest salvo coming from Burger King.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Another drone salvo hit the Caspian Pipeline Consortium's terminal near the Russian Black Sea port of Novorossiysk -- a key export route for Kazakh oil, partly owned by Chevron and Shell.
From Barron's ● Jul. 19, 2026
But it was the sight of loosehead prop Ox Nche stampeding through Ollie Chessum and Jamie George, with the England defence desperately, vainly backpedalling, that summed up a brutally chastening opening salvo.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
The full and better-recorded salvo came late in 1800 and early in 1801, during the debate in the House of Representatives over the presidential deadlock between Burr and Jefferson.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
With the official status of talks between Washington and Tehran uncertain and ahead of a meeting in Pakistan on Monday with key regional players, daily salvoes of strikes across the region have continued unabated.
From Barron's ● Mar. 29, 2026
Aware of the threat, Mr Ramaphosa fired salvoes at his predecessor, without naming him.
From BBC ● May 26, 2024
The tone of the early salvoes dismayed Noura Bittar Søborg, a Syrian asylum seeker who fled Homs in 2011 and has managed to bring her father, mother and younger sister to Denmark.
From The Guardian ● May 30, 2015
Artillery salvoes were fired from an area that Nalyvaichenko said is under the control of a Cossack unit manned by Russian citizens.
From US News ● Feb. 15, 2015
It hung above the dumpy freighter, and there were salvoes of all the guns in the fleet.
From The Invaders by Murray Leinster
With only a trickle of Patriot interceptors arriving from Western allies, Ukraine is working on other ways to disrupt Russia’s missile salvos.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
We are already seeing the first salvos of this escalated warfare.
From Salon ● Jul. 1, 2026
Even as Iran fires regular salvos at the base, AFP did not see any signs of a heavy security presence there.
From Barron's ● Apr. 6, 2026
The IDF also said its defence systems had operated to intercept more salvos of Iranian missiles.
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2026
Every day, the first minutes of class would be filled by harsh salvos of criticism aimed at Mr. Loring’s round, assailable figure leaning against his lectern.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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