struck
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By dating zircon crystals taken from granite altered by the impact, the team determined that the meteorite struck about 370 million years ago during the Late Devonian.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026
The Range Rover, driven by a 16-year-old boy, struck Uchimiya’s car around 6:50 a.m., said Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Sgt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
On Friday evening it was struck again - the fourth time in two days.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
Yet reading “The Proof in the Code,” which takes the reader right up to the threshold of current breakthroughs, I was struck as much by the limitations of machine mathematics as by its power.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Clare hunched farther over the kindling and struck the monocle again and again, looking back and forth from the unlit tinder to the spirit floating above him.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
