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There was nevertheless widespread anger at the government over a protest crackdown viewed as an assault on the right to protest.

From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026

“In my experience, every three to five years at Cornell there’s either a major assault or tragedy that hits the news,” she said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Strong’s post also addressed the timing of the monologue given the recent high-profile sexual assault case at Cornell University.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

A second assault by beating charge against Cordina was dropped on Tuesday.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

The women of Raskova’s regiments seem to have generally escaped assault and unwanted attention.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

One of the pilots at the Old Bailey led to the London backlog of 500 cases concerning assaults on emergency workers being cut in half over the summer.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

The Navier-Stokes problem, which deals with complex fluid dynamics, had withstood the assaults of mathematicians for almost two centuries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

“And I’m going to stand up to those assaults, and Californians will continue to stand up to those assaults.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Such combined assaults expose a vulnerability in Western air defenses that rely on expensive interceptors to shoot down incoming projectiles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

She was not frightened by rumors of robberies and assaults, but, somehow, she was reluctant to go for Brigid’s sake.

From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson

A French mayor was assaulted and a Belgian vehicle was damaged, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

The following day, a 72-year-old Fresno resident shot and wounded an ICE agent whom police said had fallen asleep on the resident’s daughter’s front lawn, appeared “intoxicated and agitated” and allegedly assaulted the resident.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

"I prosecuted many people who sexually assaulted someone who was voluntarily intoxicated," he said, adding: "I got convictions. They went to prison."

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

Conviction rates are lower than when the person assaulted was sober.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026

I step through the curtain and my senses are assaulted.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins

He also denied assaulting the executive director and said he did not threaten female labor leaders.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

The father of one of the five men who were killed in a wrong-way crash with a police car has been charged with assaulting someone at his son's funeral.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

The man hailed a hero for tackling one of the gunmen who killed 15 people at Bondi Beach has pleaded not guilty to allegedly assaulting his father, a Sydney court has heard.

From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026

The Justice Department has opened an investigation into writer E. Jean Carroll, who accused President Trump of sexually assaulting her 30 years ago, people familiar with the probe said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026

The fields—wherever they were, whatever they were—had gone darker, the grass yellowing under their feet, the rides rusting, the candy apples moldering, the smell of rot and wet and damp assaulting her nostrils.

From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby