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But sociologists in the scholar-activist mold note that Du Bois also believed in using sociological truth in the pursuit of activism, promising in 1906 to “never cease to protest and assail the ears of America.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026

I watched this, sitting two rows behind Trump, as he turned and walked out to face the cameras and assail the process that had brought him there.

From Slate ● Jan. 10, 2025

The problem is that Walz's cheery Midwestern normalcy has an authenticity to it that's hard to assail.

From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2024

And once Catherine’s cancer was revealed, British media were quick to assail their counterparts across the pond, accusing American tabloids and media figures of recklessly amplifying the more outlandish rumors.

From New York Times ● Mar. 24, 2024

If we make no answer, the Enemy may move Men of his rule to assail King Brand, and Dáin also.’

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

Meanwhile, the document assails America’s friends across the Atlantic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 8, 2025

Biden assails bigotry after Buffalo attack, says ‘white supremacy is a poison’

From Washington Post ● Jun. 1, 2022

"Shaming personalizes political life; it assails individuals for injustices that are historically, socially and politically organized," political theorist Wendy Brown, who teaches social science at the Institute for Advanced Study, told Salon by email.

From Salon ● May 9, 2022

It’s never especially funny, not because it’s a dystopian downer whose laughs are supposed to stick in your throat, but because it clumsily assails and misses a series of obvious targets.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 8, 2022

When she caught sight of the little group kneeling about the prostrate man, that sense of tragedy, and of the inevitable, which assails at such a time, shook her.

From The Great House by Weyman, Stanley John

The competitive threat posed by cheaper Chinese substitutes has once again assailed semiconductor stocks, leading to dramatic falls in some of the biggest memory chip makers in Asia on Tuesday.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026

Mayor Karen Bass finds herself in the extraordinary position, as an incumbent, of fighting to make the runoff as she is assailed from the left and the right.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026

He did not respond to a detailed list of questions but assailed the requests in two posts on X, where he has 1.8 million followers.

From Salon ● Apr. 22, 2026

But she also assailed her colleagues for failing to explain themselves.

From Slate ● Mar. 17, 2026

We spent the weekend spiritlessly sightseeing, assailed by unspoken anxieties.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

He has already moved on from assailing the frontier labs to milking them by selling them compute at a steep markup.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

Horvath, 43, has been one of the mayor’s most outspoken critics over the past year, assailing her record on homelessness and last year’s Palisades fire, which destroyed thousands of homes and left 12 people dead.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2026

GM went full speed ahead, pouring money into national ad campaigns assailing things like men eating tofu.

From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2025

For his part, Fauci—a veteran of numerous appearances before Congress—held his ground, assailing accusations made against him as “seriously distorted,” “absolutely false,” and “simply preposterous.”

From Science Magazine ● Jun. 3, 2024

“Well, thank God Miss Annie has left for a while. Now perhaps I can play my lute without her rasping denunciations assailing me from across the alley.”

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole