attack
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Montpellier hit straight back with their first attack of the game.
From BBC • May 22, 2026
They were briefly repelled by a security guard, who along with two other victims in the parking lot, alerted people at the center and police to the attack, saving lives.
From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026
Putin said the attack took place as the students were sleeping.
From Barron's • May 22, 2026
Whereas the European gothic, he concludes, was “an enlightened attack on a debased ruling class or entrenched superstition,” its American version emerged as “a Calvinist exposé of natural human corruption.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
“It is wrong to base faith upon wishes. There will be war. The Germans will attack and we will fall.”
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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