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But sociologists in the scholar-activist mold note that Du Bois also believed in using sociological truth in the pursuit of activism, promising in 1906 to “never cease to protest and assail the ears of America.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026

I watched this, sitting two rows behind Trump, as he turned and walked out to face the cameras and assail the process that had brought him there.

From Slate ● Jan. 10, 2025

The problem is that Walz's cheery Midwestern normalcy has an authenticity to it that's hard to assail.

From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2024

Today, whenever Mr. Arévalo appears in public, he attracts throngs to hear him assail the government’s attacks on Guatemala’s democracy.

From New York Times ● Aug. 18, 2023

If we make no answer, the Enemy may move Men of his rule to assail King Brand, and Dáin also.’

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

In May she urged Mexicans not to watch TV Azteca, a private station that regularly assails the government.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

They won us over with their mild pomposity and aloofness, whereas Rapaport’s annoyance wreaks collateral damage like a chronically unbathed person’s odor assails bystanders.

From Salon ● Jan. 15, 2026

Meanwhile, the document assails America’s friends across the Atlantic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 8, 2025

“This lawsuit assails the First Amendment and the news media’s duty and right to report on matters of significant public interest without fear of liability,” Fox said in the court documents filed on Thursday.

From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2023

When she caught sight of the little group kneeling about the prostrate man, that sense of tragedy, and of the inevitable, which assails at such a time, shook her.

From The Great House by Stanley John Weyman

Critics assailed the carefully curated lifestyle presented by Meghan as tone-deaf.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

The competitive threat posed by cheaper Chinese substitutes has once again assailed semiconductor stocks, leading to dramatic falls in some of the biggest memory chip makers in Asia on Tuesday.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026

Roberts once signed on to a Kagan dissent that assailed the shadow docket.

From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2026

Raman also assailed Bass over the fire, the worst in the city’s history.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026

It may, however, simply have been another bout of deep blue melancholia, the kind that had assailed him off and on for years.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

He has already moved on from assailing the frontier labs to milking them by selling them compute at a steep markup.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

GM went full speed ahead, pouring money into national ad campaigns assailing things like men eating tofu.

From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2025

For his part, Fauci—a veteran of numerous appearances before Congress—held his ground, assailing accusations made against him as “seriously distorted,” “absolutely false,” and “simply preposterous.”

From Science Magazine ● Jun. 3, 2024

HLA supporters have spent weeks assailing Szabo’s previous cost estimates for the measure.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2024

Lone men, riding wild, brought word of foes assailing their east-borders, of orc-hosts marching in the Wold of Rohan.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien