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And the careful, steadily reported, once-a-week format may seem like a dinosaur in this hyper-paced timeline where deluges of information accost us every ticking second.

From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2026

A rare moment of high drama flares when a pregnant woman, Agata, played with firecracker fierceness by Anna Chlumsky, barrels down the basement stairs to accost Renia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2025

"No American should accost another for their beliefs," he wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter, on Wednesday evening.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2023

You wait for guests to leave the secure perimeter, and politely accost them for all the details.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 20, 2022

“I don’t usually come out and accost the patients, sorry! It’s just that Hank told me about you and...and I can relate.”

From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen

School marshals escort her and her fellow board members to their cars to ensure no one accosts them.

From Salon ● May 15, 2024

“No one accosts me in the street. No one threatens my life, and nobody shoots me,” said Miller, who is white.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 13, 2023

Emi herself yells at someone who’s inconsiderately parked his truck on a stretch of curb, and later at an older man who accosts her in the street.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 26, 2021

The coach, Saul, who’s never seen the kid before, looks on, flummoxed: Who accosts a stranger in this way?

From Washington Post ● Nov. 17, 2021

She accosts me at the door; she must have been watching through the window.

From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse

According to a police affidavit, Sanchez accosted Perry Tole after the Indiana resident had backed his truck into the loading docks of a downtown Indianapolis hotel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

The trial heard how Botezatu was accosted after he left Latin American restaurant Amazonico.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

Ramirez asked his attorney, Luis Castillo, if the agents who accosted him “had violence on their mind when they used that word.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026

On Tuesday, the 63-year-old doctor of engineering was accosted as she walked through Mexico City.

From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2025

It was the same answer he gave on the school bus when Dana Matherson accosted him on his first day, and from then on Roy was “Tex” or “cowgirl” or “Roy Rogers-hardt.”

From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen

Fans have been seen accosting board members in hotel lobbies and airports, while on the pitch the team languish 14 points off the Premiership summit as Europe continues to to be a traumatic experience.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2025

Given her reaction to being approached by the CeraVe rack and her fear of town halls, Mace may think the only appropriate forum for accosting a representative is the hallway outside the bathroom.

From Salon ● Apr. 20, 2025

A video seen by The Associated Press showed scores of Turkish Cypriots accosting a much smaller group of Slovak and British U.N. soldiers trying to hold them back from starting work inside the buffer zone.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 18, 2023

A video seen by the Associated Press showed scores of Turkish Cypriots accosting a much smaller group of Slovak and British U.N. soldiers trying to hold them back from starting work inside the buffer zone.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 18, 2023

Little regiments of children lurked by the doorways, apparently for the express purpose of accosting foreign missionaries.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver