salvo

This does not have to be an opening salvo in a cold war with your family and/or coded message to your sister.

TOKYO—Japan’s cabinet has approved $135 billion of stimulus to help households cope with rising living costs and boost economic growth, launching the first fiscal salvo under new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi.

That moment in Birmingham has been one of the few opening salvos to go the way of England, however.

As the Mary Rose turned, preparing to fire another salvo from her port side, she listed with her starboard side low in the water.

That early salvo -- the first time in World Series history a team has hit back-to-back lead off home runs -- handed the Blue Jays a lead they would never relinquish.