noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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fire
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He ought to have waited to fire one really effective salvo at close range.
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Clinton fired the opening salvo last month when he included tax cuts in his proposed 1997 budget.
open
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Desktop publishing was only the opening salvo of a fusillade of developments that would change the way people worked.
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Clinton fired the opening salvo last month when he included tax cuts in his proposed 1997 budget.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He directed a series of verbal salvos at his opponent during the debate.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But it is difficult to imagine Monsanto's chief executive, Robert Shapiro, frightened by a salvo of well-drafted leaflets.
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Clinton fired the opening salvo last month when he included tax cuts in his proposed 1997 budget.
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Desktop publishing was only the opening salvo of a fusillade of developments that would change the way people worked.
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In its latest salvo , Vanguard has renegotiated its fees paid to outside advisers who manage its active stock and bond funds.
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In the darkness there is an almighty salvo of machine gun fire, like a cacophony of cracking whips.
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Sharpe counted twenty-four gouts of smoke in the first salvo .
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Suddenly a salvo arrived but did no damage.