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ambush

noun as in surprise attack, trap

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verb as in lie in wait; attack

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Skeletons of adults, teens and children excavated in the 1960s at an ancient cemetery in Sudan known as Jebel Sahaba display injuries incurred in repeated skirmishes, raids or ambushes, say paleoanthropologist Isabelle Crevecoeur and her colleagues.

In a testament to Carol Ann Drazba’s care, Johnny Williams, whom she treated after an ambush left him severely injured, sent flowers to her mother every year until he passed away.

From Time

Right now, Kammerer says, it’s hard to know whether this reptile was an ambush or pursuit predator.

“Whether it was an ambush or pursuit predator is a very difficult thing to address, and perhaps unknowable,” given that animals at that time were quite different from modern ones.

Google searches for “short squeeze” rose by more than 800 percent this past week, as Americans tried to decode an ambush by Reddit traders on Wall Street hedge fund managers who had bet against brick-and-mortar video game firm GameStop.

From Ozy

They were the machine gun bullets coming from the ambush when my company got hit.

In one ambush in late July, 11 Hezbollah fighters were killed, according to Lebanese security sources.

He was killed instantly by a blast in an ambush launched on our vehicles outside of a schoolhouse.

She would lure him to a Paris suburb where the gang waited in ambush.

Opponents call the technique “ambush elections” and say the rules do not leave enough time for management to make its case.

Some time after Bruce went north, he proceeded to Douglasdale again78 and placed an ambush near his ancestral castle.

Douglas now broke ambush and cut off Webton from the castle, eventually slaying him and all his men.

He planted an ambush in the early morning, and let the hay lie till the peel men had gone out to cut their crop.

At Dantzig, with his own hand, he killed a Russian sergeant who had caught a French cavalry colonel in an ambush.

Its tactics are like those of the Indian who fights under cover or lies in ambush for his enemy.

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On this page you'll find 54 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to ambush, such as: ambuscade, trap, trick, and ambushment.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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