bazooka
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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
He may also enjoy showing off his new tariff bazooka.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
The bazooka was designed as a deterrent—and it seems to have deterred.
From Slate ● Jan. 23, 2026
So even if the commission were to pull the trigger now, it could be a year before the bazooka is actually fired.
From BBC ● Jan. 19, 2026
Maybe she didn't need a bazooka after all.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
The boss of one well-known high street business told me they are even hoping there won't be any big bazookas.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026
The elated health minister, Mutahi Kagwe, said that the country had “been fighting this virus with rubber bullets,” but now had finally acquired the metaphorical equivalent of “machine guns, bazookas, and tanks.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 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
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