NOUN
- an attack (usually without prior warning) intended to deal only with a specific target
How To Use surgical strike In A Sentence
- Despite all the talk of precision bombing and surgical strikes, ‘collateral damage’ is reaching an embarrassing level.
- A surgical strike was carried out on the enemy's military headquarters.
- I gestured toward the brood of flip-flop wearing Samoans who were loading the washer with the efficiency of a surgical strike team. Anhedonia (excerpt)
- We won't invade and we almost certainly won't try to take out the atomic research facilities with a famous surgical strike. Times, Sunday Times
- We won't invade and we almost certainly won't try to take out the atomic research facilities with a famous surgical strike. Times, Sunday Times
- The new figures cast doubt on the government'sclaim to have achieved a surgical strike against military targets.
- To bomb Ukraine -- conduct what they call a surgical strike against a military base -- absolutely outrageous in view of the Ukrainians 'gesture of friendship. Nuke Zone
- The joke about a surgical strike with a smart missile has been around since the first Gulf war.
