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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

Musk found that cartoonist’s tweet and called his ban “insane,” inspiring his followers to assail r/comics.

From Slate ● Mar. 13, 2025

Go ahead, criticize the Biden administration and assail its record.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2024

Let other humorists, satirists and columnists assail you with the day-by-day account.

From Salon ● Dec. 29, 2022

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

"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

Her documentary, “One Child Nation,” which assails the country’s population-control policy, was shortlisted for the documentary Oscar in 2019.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 28, 2021

Norton, Andrews, assails Schleiermacher, 48; attacks transcendentalism, 123; controversy with George Ripley, 124.

From Transcendentalism in New England A History by Octavius Brooks Frothingham

Marisol, referred to by a publishing colleague as “Miss Puerto Rican Yuppy Princess of the Universe,” still lives in the Bronx and is assailed by dangers just getting to and from work every day.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

Critics assailed the carefully curated lifestyle presented by Meghan as tone-deaf.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

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

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 as she sat there amid her guests, she felt the old ennui overtaking her, the hopelessness which so often assailed her, which came upon her like an obsession, like something extraneous, independent of volition.

From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin

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

Pratt has been regularly assailing Bass and her record on social media, even as he promotes his new book, “The Guy You Loved to Hate.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 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