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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 Armored press vests, designed to stop bullets, have proved useless in the face of missiles and artillery shells. Ghada Abdulfattah, Christian Science Monitor, 29 Apr. 2025 North Korea has emerged as a major supplier of artillery shells and other munitions to Russia, and is the only nation outside of Moscow and Kyiv to have formally committed military forces to the war in Eastern Europe. Ross Rosenfeld, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Apr. 2025 Zelensky added that, according to military reports, Russian assaults and artillery fire continued along parts of the 600-mile front line. Hanna Arhirova, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2025 While the United States continued to supply bombs, artillery shells, and tanks to Israel, Fault Lines followed three families’ efforts to survive. Hilary Lewis, HollywoodReporter, 15 Apr. 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 19 May. 2025.

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