torpedo
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Hutchinson is a longtime community activist and commentator, and he had just launched a torpedo in the direction of City Hall.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2026
More are coming: Worried that big IPOs will torpedo the stock market?
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 12, 2026
There are training bats, wood bats, torpedo bats and backpacks to carry them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 14, 2026
Sri Lanka said 32 sailors rescued by its navy after the torpedo attack "will remain in Sri Lanka", according to news agency AFP.
From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2026
Captain Savitsky’s torpedo crew loaded their purple-tipped weapon into B-59’s firing tube number two.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
The USS Joseph P. Kennedy — a Gearing-class destroyer once equipped with Mark 32 torpedoes, anti-submarine missiles, and nuclear depth charges — has been decorated for Christmas.
From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2025
The purchases spanned more than 30 different projects, including missiles for Patriot and Iris-T air defence systems, artillery, torpedoes, weapon systems for aircraft and unmanned aerial reconnaissance systems, according to the defence ministry.
From Barron's ● Dec. 17, 2025
But a whopping betrayal torpedoes the friendship—and Nora’s delusions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
The agreement also extends to joint war gaming, and the use of UK-built Sting Ray torpedoes.
From BBC ● Dec. 4, 2025
The noise his crew was interpreting as that of enemy torpedoes, Herrick suggested, could actually be coming from the American ship’s own propeller.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
UniQure announced Wednesday that the agency will consider an accelerated approval for its Huntington’s disease gene therapy that had been torpedoed by prior leadership.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
The strange legal saga that torpedoed Jeff Shell’s career at Paramount Skydance has ended with a whimper.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026
As if to underscore the narrowness of the margin, the ship on which Ms. Wisse escaped Europe was torpedoed on its way back.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
Sri Lanka will treat Iranian sailors rescued from a torpedoed frigate according to international law, a minister said Saturday, following reports that Washington was pressuring Colombo to not repatriate them.
From Barron's ● Mar. 7, 2026
Less than an hour had passed since the ship was torpedoed.
From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys
Indian strategic affairs expert Brahma Chellaney wrote on X that the US torpedoing of the Iranian warship in India's "maritime neighbourhood" was "more than a battlefield episode" - calling it a "strategic embarrassment" for Delhi.
From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2026
The conflict even reached the coast of Sri Lanka, where a US submarine sank an Iranian warship, Washington's first torpedoing of a vessel since World War II.
From Barron's ● Mar. 5, 2026
“Although we sisters are supposed to be invisible, God has nevertheless given us eyes and ears,” she announces to a roomful of cardinals during an especially brutal torpedoing session.
From Salon ● Nov. 22, 2024
Rory’s no thief and is basically a decent guy, save for torpedoing his marriage and alienating his teenage son.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2024
At the commencement of the war, the torpedoing of several battleships and cruisers by German submarines aroused no enmity within the hearts of the British tars.
From The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War by Hodgson, Edward S.
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