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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 Kyiv has hinted at an artillery ammunition shortage in the weeks ahead, and recent pledges by its allies may not have headed off that imminent crisis. Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 14 Apr. 2025 The initiative builds on previous support, including the purchase of artillery from Norway’s defense industry in partnership with other Nordic nations, as well as the transfer of artillery from the country’s stockpiles and the sharing of defense technologies to enable local production in Ukraine. Katya Soldak, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025 Caissons are wagons that had been used to carry artillery to the front and fallen soldiers from combat. Tom Vanden Brook, USA Today, 8 Apr. 2025 Since the basement had a window, the musicians could hear artillery shells in the distance, although those sounds miraculously aren’t heard on the album. David Browne, Rolling Stone, 4 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 1 May. 2025.

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