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Using a rare multiple-day break between games to audit their performances, coaches and analytics staffers showed slide presentations to players about both offensive and defensive flaws this week.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2026

Martin was told he would not be called to speak in the Welsh Parliament until he apologised for the remarks made on Tuesday, which Presiding Officer Huw Irranca-Davies called "unnecessarily provocative and deliberately offensive".

From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2026

But Russia’s offensive efforts continue to struggle under a sky filled with drones, a revolution in warfare that, for now, favors the defender.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026

The company wants to implement a "productivity offensive" to drive down costs, including an increase in working hours for no extra pay, but here too there has been no agreement with the unions.

From Barron's ● Nov. 12, 2026

She was going to have her work cut out for her, because now the Soviets were on the offensive again.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

But Charlie Werb, an analyst with Aldebaran Threat Consultants, said the new shipment could help Malian and Russian forces to build up enough strength to launch offensives into areas which have fallen to the rebels.

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026

Although bombing contributed to Germany’s defeat in World War II, it took ground offensives by the Allied powers to win that war.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 9, 2026

It said that "consistent and indiscriminate drone attacks and ground offensives constitute clear violations of ceasefire agreements by the DRC".

From Barron's ● Mar. 2, 2026

He shouldn’t have lasted two innings but he survived, squelching early Dodger offensives and holding them to those two early runs while completing four innings despite three walks and four hits.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2025

And he refrained for the moment from ordering further offensives.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman