surgical strike
Example Sentences
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Mark Regev, an Israeli spokesman, said Saleh al-Arouri died in a "surgical strike against the Hamas leadership".
From BBC ● Jan. 2, 2024
Founder and Chief Executive Vijay Shekhar Sharma had then hailed Modi's move, calling it "the biggest,the boldest & the most ambitious surgical strike by any government in the world".
From Reuters ● Nov. 9, 2021
It was not a surgical strike but a battering ram.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2021
And that then, every once in a while and when the situation and theater calls for it, she will deploy a sartorial surgical strike that hits everyone where it counts.
From New York Times ● Nov. 8, 2020
They buy the book, cut out the subtlety in a swift, surgical strike, and there you go.
From Salon ● May 8, 2016
