ambush

But since the rings select their bearers by asking whether they’re afraid during an ambush designed to create dread, the test favors those for whom life never presents anything to fear.

From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026

Its fantastical elements, from the ambush on Troy led by Matt Damon’s Odysseus to a giant cyclops that gobbles his men in a cave, were created primarily with physical effects for a more visceral impact.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

It would be easy to conclude ambush marketing is simply more effective than sponsorship.

From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026

Growing to around 1 meter in length, the fish was likely an ambush predator that hunted smaller animals in freshwater systems.

From Science Daily ● May 25, 2026

Perhaps they were waiting to make some ambush in a narrow place?

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

He had survived bandito ambushes and cutthroat plots, shipwrecks and crash-landings and high-sea duels.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

The filmmakers take their time revealing what long-ago crimes have so incensed Okuzaki as he more or less ambushes old comrades and superiors in their homes, confronting them with his accusations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

AFP spoke to his former business partner, ex-major Omar Rodriguez, who said that after a few desert ambushes last year, Quijano "paused" the operation.

From Barron's ● Dec. 21, 2025

The airline sets cheap rates but ambushes customers with pesky little fees for every single facet of the flying experience, a nickel-and-diming scheme that bends not even for that glass of water.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2024

Sometimes these flashes of normality come at me from the side, like ambushes.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

Think of it as a tax “prenup” with Uncle Sam that you settle up on your terms so the surviving spouse isn’t ambushed by higher rates down the road.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

Then Rushing again ambushed the first pitch — a knuckle curve on the inside edge — and drove it off the right-field wall.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026

Two National Guardsmen who were ambushed on duty in Washington received Purple Hearts, one posthumously.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 25, 2026

The DHS statement went on to say, "fearing for his life and safety as he was being ambushed by three individuals, the officer fired defensive shots".

From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2026

The whole planet was in a no-PvP zone, so I wasn’t worried about getting ambushed by the Sixers.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

We’ve all seen the appalling videos of masked agents ambushing and abducting these migrants in the halls of New York’s immigration court as they’re leaving a hearing.

From Slate ● Mar. 27, 2026

Victor Caratini led off the top of the fifth, ambushing a first-pitch fastball and sending it over the wall in right-center for a solo homer and a 3-0 lead.

From Seattle Times ● May 30, 2024

Warnings of widespread hunger bordering on famine have become more urgent, and signs of desperation are growing as people resort to consuming animal feed or ambushing aid trucks.

From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2024

After ambushing Guevara's guerrilla group Gen Prado was made a national hero for having defended the Bolivian military regime.

From BBC ● May 7, 2023

By the time of the great Inca rebellion of 1536, the Incas had learned how best to defend themselves against cavalry, by ambushing and annihilating Spanish horsemen in narrow passes.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond