ambush

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

So sponsorship and ambush marketing are not really competing for the same thing.

From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026

Researchers believe it was an ambush predator that spent much of its time concealed in the water, waiting for animals to approach for a drink.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 13, 2026

Czesław is an ethnic Pole in the Red Army who escaped a ruthless German ambush.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

“You do understand that a necessary condition for ambush is surprise?”

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

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 “What Not To Wear” system involved secret footage, ambushes, a “360 degree mirror” in which the subject was required to explain her old wardrobe, soon to be discarded forever.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2025

And as climate change supercharges more storms, fires, earthquakes, and other inevitable tragedies throughout this year and beyond, prepare to have to deal with these ambushes as well.

From Slate ● Jan. 8, 2025

Aid operations in the capital have also been hampered by ambushes along key access routes.

From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2024

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

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

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

He backed Ramaphosa when the president was ambushed by US President Donald Trump during a showdown in the White House last year.

From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026

Braddock’s column was ambushed by French and Native American forces at the Battle of the Monongahela.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 25, 2026

“A bit treacherous! A bit treacherous! My brother Phlegm was ambushed by a crowd of dwarfs disguised as dung heaps! He’s still in traction!”

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer

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

Signs of desperate hunger are growing as people resort to consuming animal feed or ambushing aid trucks.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 16, 2024

That episode occurred one inning after Acuña hammered the ball harder than anyone has all season, ambushing a 3-0 fastball by rookie Emmet Sheehan that left the yard at 121.4 mph.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2023

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