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Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, dismissed the attacks by Iran on ships in the Strait of Hormuz this week as “low harassing fire.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 9, 2026

But both Caine and Hegseth downplayed those hostilities, with the general describing it as "low harassing fire" and the Pentagon chief saying that "right now, the ceasefire certainly holds."

From Barron's • May 5, 2026

Central Command said it used Apache helicopters to sink the Iranian speedboats that were harassing traffic in the strait.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026

However, last year, a Sound Cymru survey of 500 men in Wales showed 30% of respondents considered catcalling, the act of making a threatening or harassing remark at a person publicly, not to be harmful.

From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026

The hour spent at Millcote was a somewhat harassing one to me.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë




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