assault
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Powell then weathered the most sustained political assault on the central bank in its modern history.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
The Met said it was treating the incident as "religiously aggravated assault", and enquiries were ongoing.
From BBC • May 7, 2026
Department of Education characterizes the investigation as under Title IX, a federal civil rights law that prohibits sex-based discrimination, including sexual harassment, sexual assault and violence in any education program or activity receiving federal funding.
From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2026
“We stand on the walls, sentinels of the inner sanctum, against the assault of AI slop. The Ontology is based firmly in reality—there is, here, a dialectic between ground truth, tribal knowledge, and enhancements.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026
That is the danger that he sees, and he has fled back to Isengard to double and treble his assault on Rohan.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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