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“The assault on the integrity of college athletics continues, with new lawsuits further threatening the stability of the upcoming college football season,” Baker added.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026

Another major assault on May 6-7 failed as well.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

“Targeting a mural created to be a source of healing and communal inspiration, in response to a prior act of antisemitic vandalism, is an assault not only on PJTC, but on our community here.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026

The tech sector came under assault as traders fret over the mesmerising sums being pumped into artificial intelligence, with investors questioning whether firms' lofty expectations will be met.

From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026

Each child, mesmerized by the assault of color, stared into the drift of presents with a seasonal greed as pure as angel hair.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

"Women who experience such assaults do not feel comfortable reporting them," she tells the BBC, speaking from Port Sudan, an army-held city in the east of Sudan.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026

“Operator assaults have been cut in half, and serious assaults are down 67%.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

The attack immediately revived memories of a series of deadly assaults that have shaken Germany in recent years and fuelled fierce debate over security.

From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026

How much will this hamper future criminal investigations of robberies, assaults, and other serious crimes?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026

In her heart, she was his silent ally, a fifth columnist, in Bull’s inveterate assaults on the trellised escutcheons of the Old South that Lillian shoved in front of him.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

Hearing Platner deny that he assaulted Fifield, and seeing so many rally behind him and against her, was too much.

From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026

"Today's Supreme Court decision affirms once and for all the jury's unanimous verdict that President Donald J. Trump sexually assaulted and defamed E. Jean Carroll," said Carroll's attorney Roberta Kaplan.

From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026

Sentencing had been delayed for a re-trial on additional charges that Amaaz had also assaulted a male police officer, but the jury again failed to reach a decision and he was cleared.

From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026

“To enter Colossal’s 55,000-square-foot Dallas headquarters is to find one’s senses fairly assaulted by the Power of Tech,” the publication wrote, describing it as a place where “many wondrous things are happening.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026

They hate because they fear, and they fear because they feel that the deepest feelings of their lives are being assaulted and outraged.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright

Also on Thursday, a second man, 50-year-old Matt Styler, of Gosport, pleaded not guilty to assaulting a police officer.

From BBC ● Jun. 6, 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

As ProPublica and others have reported, citizens — including Garcia Venegas — accused of assaulting officers have not always been charged with assault.

From Salon ● May 24, 2026

Mohammed Fahir Amaaz, 21, and Muhammad Amaad, 26, had denied assaulting Greater Manchester PC Zachary Marsden at the car park pay station area of terminal two on 23 July 2024.

From BBC ● May 20, 2026

There was no snowstorm, no churning sky, no assaulting cold on this side of the witch’s palace.

From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu