gunpowder

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Authorities vowed to stabilize investment with more fiscal gunpowder from the central government, according to the Xinhua readout of the gathering.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 11, 2025

The scene was pure chaos: thick smoke from gunpowder still hanging in the air, water cascading from ruptured pipes in the ceiling, alarms blaring, strobe lights flashing.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 2, 2025

Though the conquistadors enjoyed superior technology, including steel weapons and gunpowder, European diseases such as smallpox and measles proved more decisive, taking untold millions of indigenous lives.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025

At the top of the hill is a stone turret, the eponymous powder house, where the British army arrived in 1774 to seize a stock of gunpowder.

From Slate • Mar. 27, 2025

Laura handed him the smooth, polished cowhorn full of gunpowder.

From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder