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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 alliance also needs thousands more armored vehicles and tanks and millions more artillery shells. Mark Rutte, Foreign Affairs, 20 June 2025 Hood directed artillery fire under enfilading machine-gun fire. Christian Datoc, The Washington Examiner, 12 June 2025 Indeterminate numbers of casualties have occurred in both Iran and Israel, though Israel's intentions to destroy Iran's nuclear capabilities may require U.S. artillery aid in the form of multi-ton bunker buster bombs. Nick Mordowanec, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 June 2025 An artillery shell arriving after thirty seconds will miss by hundreds of meters. David Hambling, Forbes.com, 19 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for artillery

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“Artillery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/artillery. Accessed 9 Jul. 2025.

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