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salvo

[sal-voh] / ˈsæl voʊ /


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The latest salvo comes shortly after a 25 percent tariff took effect on various Brazilian goods, as Washington accused the Latin American giant of unfair trade practices.

From Barron's Jul. 24, 2026

But it was the sight of loosehead prop Ox Nche stampeding through Ollie Chessum and Jamie George, with the England defence desperately, vainly backpedalling, that summed up a brutally chastening opening salvo.

From BBC Jul. 4, 2026

Dataland’s inaugural exhibition, “Machine Dreams: Rainforest,” is the studio’s opening salvo in the battle to redefine our burgeoning relationship with the evolving technology.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 5, 2026

But Kuwait said it received 30 Iranian missiles and drones—a wartime salvo by any reckoning.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 3, 2026

From the starting gun to the final salvo, they had rowed as if they could keep going at the same pace for another two miles or ten.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

With the official status of talks between Washington and Tehran uncertain and ahead of a meeting in Pakistan on Monday with key regional players, daily salvoes of strikes across the region have continued unabated.

From Barron's Mar. 29, 2026

The tone of the early salvoes dismayed Noura Bittar Søborg, a Syrian asylum seeker who fled Homs in 2011 and has managed to bring her father, mother and younger sister to Denmark.

From The Guardian May 30, 2015

Artillery salvoes were fired from an area that Nalyvaichenko said is under the control of a Cossack unit manned by Russian citizens.

From US News Feb. 15, 2015

Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile system has intercepted many of the rocket salvoes.

From Reuters Jul. 14, 2014

On approaching the city his Highness was received with loud acclamations by the populace, who gave expression to their satisfaction in barbarous music and salvoes of small fire arms.

From Scenes and Adventures in Affghanistan by William Taylor

We are already seeing the first salvos of this escalated warfare.

From Salon Jul. 1, 2026

Even as Iran fires regular salvos at the base, AFP did not see any signs of a heavy security presence there.

From Barron's Apr. 6, 2026

It would allow us to overwhelm our adversaries with large, affordable salvos of weapons that can be built and regenerated quickly.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 24, 2026

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

From BBC Nov. 20, 2025

Rudolph Zam- bardino, a statistician at North Staffordshire Polytechnic, in England, has pointed out that the lack of direct data forces researchers into salvos of extrapolation.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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