accost

And the careful, steadily reported, once-a-week format may seem like a dinosaur in this hyper-paced timeline where deluges of information accost us every ticking second.

From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2026

The mob was there to accost and hurl insults at 58-year-old Kiai Ashari, the caretaker of the Ndholo Kusumo Islamic boarding school, as he was escorted away by police.

From BBC ● May 13, 2026

A rare moment of high drama flares when a pregnant woman, Agata, played with firecracker fierceness by Anna Chlumsky, barrels down the basement stairs to accost Renia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2025

You wait for guests to leave the secure perimeter, and politely accost them for all the details.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 20, 2022

“I don’t usually come out and accost the patients, sorry! It’s just that Hank told me about you and...and I can relate.”

From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen

School marshals escort her and her fellow board members to their cars to ensure no one accosts them.

From Salon ● May 15, 2024

“No one accosts me in the street. No one threatens my life, and nobody shoots me,” said Miller, who is white.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 13, 2023

Fans of his long-running viral videos, “Billy on the Street,” in which Eichner accosts New Yorkers to scream about pop culture, would not leap to list listening, empathy, communication or patience among his skills.

From New York Times ● Sep. 29, 2022

Emi herself yells at someone who’s inconsiderately parked his truck on a stretch of curb, and later at an older man who accosts her in the street.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 26, 2021

An hour later, he accosts her in the midway, drops to his knees, and wraps his arms around her legs.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

On Tuesday, the 63-year-old doctor of engineering was accosted as she walked through Mexico City.

From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2025

The McCanns, the court heard, then came across the defendants face-to-face when Ms Wandelt and Mrs Spragg turned up outside their home on 7 December 2024 and "accosted" them.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2025

That’s when he said three men accosted him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2025

Making his rounds, Im was accosted by a column of chattering elementary school students in yellow uniforms.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2024

“It was only as if one sailor had met a brother sailor, after twenty-five years’ absence,” Adams joked, “and had accosted him, how fare you, Jack?”

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

Fans have been seen accosting board members in hotel lobbies and airports, while on the pitch the team languish 14 points off the Premiership summit as Europe continues to to be a traumatic experience.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2025

A video seen by the Associated Press showed scores of Turkish Cypriots accosting a much smaller group of Slovak and British U.N. soldiers trying to hold them back from starting work inside the buffer zone.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 18, 2023

He has done informal surveys, accosting people about their wing habits, including at one recent college football game in Ohio.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 10, 2023

Last January, a video resurfaced of Greene accosting David Hogg, a survivor of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Florida.

From Salon ● Apr. 29, 2022

‘I can’t bear that dreadful woman accosting me every time I happen to walk by.’

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt