grenades

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Mr. Hanks does not feel, like some others, that he has to sell us on the importance of the subject at hand, hurling superlatives like hand grenades.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

The state investigator also requested the X-ray tests that deputies had used to wrongly determine that the two grenades were inert, according to the complaint.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026

“He is putting out on the internet, turtles with rocket-propelled grenades — I mean, have you seen this?”

From Salon • Dec. 2, 2025

On social media, he posts more provocatively than any other coach, hurling grenades at anyone and everyone, including his old bosses.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 25, 2025

They fashioned guns out of sticks or folded paper, and grenades out of old water bottles.

From "Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World" by Malala Yousafzai