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[reyd] / reɪd /




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Some have been carried out by the 413th separate battalion "Raid" of Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces, whose commander, Yevhen Karas, spoke to the BBC from an undisclosed location in Ukraine.

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026

Appeared in the May 16, 2026, print edition as 'Washington State’s Pension Raid'.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

The term predatory incursion is also used literally in writings of that period to refer to slightly smaller attacks like the 1781 Raid on Richmond led by American defector Benedict Arnold.

From Salon • Mar. 17, 2025

The two coaches spent enough hours together, tossing around Air Raid ideas on the same Texas Tech staff from 2004 to 2007, to understand each other’s tendencies at a pretty deep level.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2024

Do you know of the Jameson Raid, described as a “fiasco”? Marvellous punctuation story.

From "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" by Author




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