blitz
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It also launched a massive recruiting blitz that has sometimes resulted in porous vetting, as Slate’s Laura Jedeed discovered when ICE offered her a job after she skipped several screening steps.
From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2026
Carsten Jancker had given the hosts the lead in the World Cup qualifier before Owen's blitz and further goals from Steven Gerrard and Emile Heskey.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
The current hiring blitz follows more than a decade of decline, after California’s court systems shed about a third of their reporters amid a protracted budget crisis in 2012.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026
A welfare-system reform project was scaled down so much that the government canceled the media blitz it had planned, according to a senior official.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
Eagerly, he played him a series of blitz games at one second a move, and Bobby won about a third of them.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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It’s blitzes on the frozen tundra sure, but, it’s also Ernie Banks playing two on a beautiful July day.
From Salon ● Mar. 18, 2026
“Concentration risk” is the newest in this long line of marketing blitzes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026
It funds Presler: his voter-registration blitzes, volunteer trainings, and aggressive get-out-the-vote operations.
From Slate ● Dec. 8, 2025
But as one minister remarked of the news blitzes before budgets: "it's not always as clever as it looks."
From BBC ● Nov. 15, 2025
Planning continental blitzes is a favorite past-time around high-level strategic commands; it keeps the boys in trim.
From Check and Checkmate by Miller, Walter M.
How could they not be a little worried to be facing a reanimated zombie team that blitzed 56-win Boston?
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026
Then, McIlroy faltered under the weight of history as a free-swinging Rose blitzed the back nine to force the extra hole.
From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2026
In its two March friendlies, the U.S. was blitzed by Belgium 5-2 and Portugal 2-0.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2026
Super Bowl, where millions of Americans will get blitzed with constant reminders of the robot arms race whenever the cameras tune away from the Seahawks–Patriots matchup or the Bad Bunny halftime show.
From Slate ● Feb. 8, 2026
Then a purple-brown blur blitzed in from the side, landing on the charging beast.
From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older
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Just as the on-court Spurs improved through the season before blitzing through the first two rounds of the playoffs, the Jackals have sharpened their edge game after game.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026
So the Lakers have been double-teaming and blitzing Durant all over the court, compelling him into nine turnovers in Tuesday’s 101-94 Game 2 victory at Crypto.com Arena.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2026
Pinheiro Braathen had led the way in the first run with Elezi Cannaferina blitzing the field in the second.
From Barron's ● Jan. 27, 2026
The humble spice grinder that makes chopping, crushing or blitzing feel like magic.
From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2025
So right now, I channeled my inner line-backer blitzing the quarterback.
From "Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel" by Harlan Coben
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