salvo
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As Robert O’Connell wrote this week, that was just the opening salvo.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 5, 2026
The suit is the latest salvo in a legal dispute that began in late 2025.
From The Wall Street Journal β Aug. 12, 2026
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 β 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 β Jul. 4, 2026
In Seattle and in Sequim, people huddled around radios in their kitchens and parlors stood and cheered when they heard the final salvo.
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 β Mar. 29, 2026
Certain Russian and Chinese submarines can fire salvoes of precision-guided cruise missiles from afar, potentially overwhelming carrier-fleet anti-missile defense.
From Reuters β Mar. 9, 2017
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 β 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 β Feb. 15, 2015
Higher and higher rose the wind till it began to make a very heavy and constant booming in the chimney, like distant salvoes of great guns.
From The Spy in Black by J. Storer (Joseph Storer) Clouston
Most salvos have been aimed at bases hosting U.S. forces and have been intercepted, U.S. and Jordanian officials said.
From The Wall Street Journal β Aug. 3, 2026
We are already seeing the first salvos of this escalated warfare.
From Salon β Jul. 1, 2026
That moment in Birmingham has been one of the few opening salvos to go the way of England, however.
From BBC β Nov. 20, 2025
Powell's remarks helped investors turn from the latest trade salvos between Washington and Beijing, with Trump last week threatening 100-percent tariffs owing to Chinese rate earth measures.
From Barron's β Oct. 15, 2025
Every day, the first minutes of class would be filled by harsh salvos of criticism aimed at Mr. Loring’s round, assailable figure leaning against his lectern.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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