Thesaurus results for ARTILLERY

artillery

noun

är-ˈti-lə-rē

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large firearms (as cannons or rockets) during the brutal artillery attack families hid in their cellars

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Recent Examples of artillery The fighting included fighter jet sorties, exchanges of rocket fire and artillery barrages. —

CNN Money, 31 Dec. 2025 In September 2024, a century-old artillery shell weighing nearly 660 pounds was cleared from a construction site near the Serbian parliament in Belgrade. —

CBS News, 28 Dec. 2025 After a war of attrition settled in in November 2022, artillery became the central element. —

Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 28 Dec. 2025 Thailand and Cambodia have engaged in daily exchanges of rockets and artillery along their 508-mile land border following the collapse of the truce, with fighting at multiple points stretching from forested regions near Laos to the coastal provinces of the Gulf of Thailand. —

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Officers in a helicopter located the car at an undisclosed location in South San Jose and with guns deployed, pulled over the driver and arrested him there.

— Rick Hurd, Mercury News, 15 Jan. 2026
Across California, and the nation, citizens and noncitizens alike have reported being beaten and harassed, having guns pointed at them without provocation and being detained without basic rights for days.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2026