attack
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The attack adds more pressure on a vital energy corridor in the region.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
He is the fifth Palestine Action supporter to have been convicted over the attack.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
He also wrote about the recent attack on open-source-model repository Hugging Face by AI agents built by OpenAI.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
Ukrainian trains are halted and evacuated when there is a heightened threat of attack, with passengers standing in fields and forests alongside the track for hours until the danger passes.
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026
According to Claude, they thought it would win the Most Unusual Pet prize, but it was too mad from being whitewashed and hairsprayed to do anything but attack.
From "The Best School Year Ever" by Barbara Robinson
Riyadh, meanwhile, shut its East-West pipeline at the weekend following drone attacks by the Houthis.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
The escalating attacks on railways come after months of strikes on Black Sea shipping and alongside attacks on warehouses, agriculture, transport hubs and logistics centres around Kyiv and across the country.
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026
The U.A.E. has borne the brunt of Iran’s attacks during the war with more than 2,800 drones and missiles sent its way, far more than Iran fired at Israel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
Davidson managing director Gil Luria said companies should address that by “hardening code bases,” or strengthening software to handle attacks, rather than by slowing down AI development.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
During the first year of German rule, there were only minor attacks on Jews in Holland.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
One of the pipeline’s pumping stations was attacked in April, offering a proxy for the recent disruption and an eventual recovery, Shah said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
Arizona, meanwhile, attacked in waves — blocking a punt in the fourth quarter and taking over three yards from the end zone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
Saudi Arabia has closed a critical oil pipeline after it was attacked by drones launched from Iraq, as conflict in the Middle East widens.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
Billy, hand-carrying finished suits, had been on his way to Heathrow Airport and thence to overseas clients when he was attacked on the train.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
“But nothing happened when I spun! I didn’t catch on fire or get attacked by mice! I just made gold! Fat skeins of gold that could feed the whole village!”
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
"Runaway Train" star Eric Roberts, who saw his own Cameo footage similarly distorted to portray him attacking Democrats over transgender issues, told AFP the statements "are not my words and do not represent my beliefs."
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026
Most memorable of all was on the final day of the 1994-95 season, when he single-handedly kept out the attacking might of Manchester United to deny them a third consecutive Premier League title.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
In layman's terms, it means they are not very good when comes to creating an attacking threat.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
This makes you wonder what the “protection” part of their agency is actually about, but it does make it more apparent why Mamdani’s opponents are attacking him over 9/11.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026
He had eaten three bananas and was now attacking a fourth.
From "The Witches" by Roald Dahl
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