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
The bazooka was designed as a deterrent—and it seems to have deterred.
From Slate ● Jan. 23, 2026
They may now decide there is no longer a need to ramp up the rhetoric around counter-tariffs and on rolling out the EU's "trade bazooka".
From BBC ● Jan. 21, 2026
Germany’s promised fiscal bazooka should start firing next year, nudging growth across Europe.
From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2025
One end of the tube was wedged between his bars at stomach level, and the other protruded halfway into the narrow gallery space between cell bars and fence, like a miniature bazooka.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
It is one thing to give Ukraine short-range anti-tank bazookas.
From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2022
Then I realized the bazookas were actually huge, marlin-ready fishing poles.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 8, 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
When he joined the BOE’s rate-setting committee in 2006, he said, opportunities for linguistic ingenuity were scarce, “so bazookas or sledgehammers weren’t on the table.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2016
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
