salvo
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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
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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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