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But it’s not as extreme of an intervention as Mario Draghi’s “whatever it takes” pledge to preserve the euro or Ben Bernanke’s bazooka program in response to the collapse of Lehman Brothers, experts say.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026

The bazooka was designed as a deterrent—and it seems to have deterred.

From Slate ● Jan. 23, 2026

French President Emmanuel Macron says it's time to use the EU's "trade bazooka" for the first time.

From BBC ● Jan. 18, 2026

Germany’s promised fiscal bazooka should start firing next year, nudging growth across Europe.

From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2025

He just wished the pockets were large enough for a chain saw, or maybe a bazooka.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan

The game, set in a fantasy world with several kingdoms at war over the control of magic, abandons the tried-and-true formula of arming players with an arsenal of guns and bazookas.

From New York Times ● Aug. 22, 2023

"We know the bandits have all those bazookas, rocket launchers… We didn't believe they have the technical know-how and capacity to use them," retired security official Mike Ejiofor told the Vanguard newspaper.

From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2021

“We have been fighting the pandemic with rubber bullets but what we have acquired today is equivalent, metaphorically speaking, to bazookas and machine guns,” Kenyan Health Minister Mutahi Kagwe said.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 3, 2021

“The Fed went from bazookas that had mostly run out of ammo and skipped helicopters and went straight to the B-52s carpet bombing tons of cash on the financial markets and the economy,” Yardeni said.

From Washington Post ● May 8, 2020

A retired police chief in New Haven, Connecticut, told The New York Times, “I was offered tanks, bazookas, anything I wanted.”

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander