incursion

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Completely marginalized during the administration’s Venezuela incursion, she was not even being invited to the White House Situation Room to observe the operation.

From Salon • Mar. 22, 2026

It is America’s largest Middle East incursion since Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003—and so far, the stock market back home has shrugged it off.

From Barron's • Mar. 6, 2026

The military told all residents of a huge swathe of southern Lebanon near the Israeli border to leave on Wednesday, ahead of a much-anticipated ground incursion.

From BBC • Mar. 5, 2026

Last month, a U.S. incursion into Caracas culminated in the capture of Venezuela’s former President Nicolás Maduro.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026

Perhaps food had appeared where at the last incursion there had been none; bird droppings, insects perhaps, any of the strewn detritus of landward life.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding