SALVO Synonyms: 53 Similar and Opposite Words

salvo

noun

ˈsal-(ˌ)vō

as in barrage

a rapid or overwhelming outpouring of many things at once attacked the manager with a salvo of complaints before she even managed to say "hello"

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Recent Examples of salvo House Republicans began seriously discussing their opening salvo in the spending negotiations last week, with a plan to push for a continuing resolution to keep the government funded through March 28, while attaching a non-citizen voting bill that Democrats generally see as a nonstarter. —

Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 9 Sep. 2024 The union that represents Los Angeles police officers has fired another salvo against a member of the department’s top brass, filing a lawsuit this week that accuses a prominent commander of inappropriately accessing the union’s internal communications. —

Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2024 Gascón announced on Thursday that his office will move for reconsideration of the decades-old case involving the brothers, who killed their parents in a salvo of shotgun blasts in the den of their Beverly Hills mansion. —

Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Oct. 2024 The company made an opening salvo in July, when its chief executive, Sam Altman, published, with Lehane’s support, an op-ed in the Washington Post which portrayed the fight around A.I. regulations as one pitting democracies against authoritarian regimes. —

Charles Duhigg, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for salvo

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Tensions between Israel and Iran remain at a boiling point, more than a week after Israel launched a wave of airstrikes into Iranian territory, the latest in a chain of retaliatory attacks after Iran fired a barrage of around 200 missiles at Israel in early October.

Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2024
Since 2020, election workers have faced a constant barrage of threats, harassment, and stalking at such a level that the DOJ formed a special division just to investigate those types of threats.

Tess Owen, WIRED, 1 Nov. 2024