noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
massive
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The alternative is massive retaliation by missiles aimed at the enemy's cities, which will stay put.
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Dulles used massive retaliation as the chief instrument of containment.
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There was a psychological as well as a military problem involved in massive retaliation .
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In its first test massive retaliation had won a victory.
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The strategy would later be called massive retaliation .
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Dulles called the policy massive retaliation .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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military retaliation
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Alarmed by the case, foreign governments are talking of retaliation .
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City officials denied any retaliation but said they approved the settlement because they feared higher costs from a protracted legal battle.
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In retaliation , the emperor gathered fifty pagan scholars, then challenged her to a religious debate.
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Over the following weeks, Portadown loyalists harassed the police in retaliation for what they claimed was police persecution.
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Some people were beginning to talk about retaliation or revenge against the authorities responsible.
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There was a psychological as well as a military problem involved in massive retaliation .