blitzkriegs 1 of 2

plural of blitzkrieg
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blitzkriegs

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verb

present tense third-person singular of blitzkrieg
as in bombs
to use bombs or artillery against the Germans were determined to blitzkrieg London until the British surrendered

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for blitzkriegs
Noun
  • The Russians have also continued nightly barrages of drones and missiles against targets across Ukraine, especially against energy infrastructure.
    Tim Lister, CNN Money, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Having friends secures Israel’s place in the region and the world, as the remarkable coordinated response to Iranian missile barrages should’ve made clear.
    Bloomberg Opinion, Twin Cities, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Often, one of the pair is more offensive or box-to-box in their profile, with the other being more of a traditional, defensive-minded midfielder whose strengths are to break up opposition attacks.
    Mark Carey, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Scatological attacks are usually the province of outsiders trying to cut the powerful down to size.
    Michelle Goldberg, Mercury News, 23 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Ukraine bombs Russian energy infrastructure to defend civilians and destroy the Kremlin war machine.
    Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Remind them their worth is non-negotiable When your child fails — gets cut from the team, bombs a test — remind them their value isn't up for debate.
    Jennifer Breheny Wallace, CNBC, 21 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • As rain pattered against windows, and trees lining the streets swayed, flurries of urgent texts began ricocheting from one end of the neighborhood to the other, and panic set in as some residents put on their shoes and hurried out the door.
    Danya Gainor, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Mild with occasional snow flurries, but calm most of the week.
    Joe Edwards, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • There’s a lot of fear in the air – fear of speaking out, fear of being swept up in ICE raids, etc.
    Andre Mouchard, Oc Register, 26 Oct. 2025
  • There have been splashy workplace raids like the ones that occurred at a Georgia Hyundai plant and a California legal marijuana farm.
    Lauren Villagran, USA Today, 26 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Zelenskyy has made clear his chief aim is to secure better defenses for Ukraine amid Russia’s constant aerial bombardments of civilian targets like cities, energy infrastructure and hospitals, and his big-ticket item is the American Tomahawk missile.
    Caitlin McFall, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Hours after the deal’s announcement, videos posted on social media by correspondents and Unicef spokesperson James Elder in Gaza showed a relatively quiet night sky, a rare occurrence in an enclave that has faced incessant bombardments for just over two years.
    Callum Sutherland, Time, 9 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Ising’s case is among a series of incidents The Star has reported on in recent months in which fire department employees charged with serious crimes — including assaults, a felony drug case and multiple DWIs — were allowed to remain on the job, some for years.
    Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Vril and Agartha have thrived in part because of the way the editors mix brainrot and bigotry, disguising their ideological assaults in the fried fog of GifTok rap gibberish.
    Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Financiers organized press offensives and enlisted top reporters as allies, offering lucrative jobs or outright bribes.
    Evan Hughes, The Atlantic, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Chapter narrators alternate between a homing pigeon and a soldier whose futures intersect in the most terrible of war offensives in France.
    The Know, Denver Post, 19 Oct. 2025
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“Blitzkriegs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blitzkriegs. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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