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