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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

Musk found that cartoonist’s tweet and called his ban “insane,” inspiring his followers to assail r/comics.

From Slate ● Mar. 13, 2025

Go ahead, criticize the Biden administration and assail its record.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2024

Let other humorists, satirists and columnists assail you with the day-by-day account.

From Salon ● Dec. 29, 2022

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

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 8, 2025

But when an unspecified disease assails T'Challa's body from within, Shuri is powerless.

From Salon ● Nov. 15, 2022

Ragins — whose book “Frontier: A Rebellious Guide to Psychosis and Other Extraordinary Experiences,” assails the U.S. mental health system and plots a smarter course — had a fairly normal conversation with the client.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2022

The most pernicious problem remains inflation, a reality that assails businesses and households, adding to the strain on the poor through higher food prices.

From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2021

Tyranny has no enemy so formidable as that which assails not only its existence, but its reputation, which pursues it in life and beyond the grave.

From A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning by George Jacob Holyoake

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

Belgium’s soccer federation assailed FIFA’s lack of transparency and said it was “astonished” by the reversal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026

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

From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2026

When the main crowd of worshipers reached the short bridge spanning the pond, the ragged sound of honky-tonk music assailed them.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou

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

Horvath, 43, has been one of the mayor’s most outspoken critics over the past year, assailing her record on homelessness and last year’s Palisades fire, which destroyed thousands of homes and left 12 people dead.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 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

“Well, thank God Miss Annie has left for a while. Now perhaps I can play my lute without her rasping denunciations assailing me from across the alley.”

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole