big guns

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In the first decade of the 20th century, two brilliant English civilians, Arthur Pollen and Harold Isherwood, invented the world’s first modern gunnery computer to aim the big guns of battleships.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026

Both sides wheeled out big guns, with former president Barack Obama rallying support for Spanberger and Sherrill.

From Barron's • Nov. 5, 2025

The big guns come out late in any Academy Awards broadcast — and the 77th Oscars, held on Feb. 27, 2005, at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles — was no different.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2025

And it did not bring out its big guns.

From BBC • Aug. 26, 2024

We’d been walking about a day and a half and we were almost halfway to Pochala when we heard the booming of big guns.

From "Lost Boy, Lost Girl" by John Bul Dau