offensive
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Philadelphia looked a little rusty at times last week, though the offensive line looked good and the Eagles came away with a win.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
Fighting flared in July when the Houthis, who have for years controlled swathes of northern Yemen, launched a large-scale offensive against Yemeni government forces.
From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026
Yeah, the Cardinals — led by rookie head coach Mike LaFleur, the Rams’ former offensive coordinator — embarrassed the Bolts at home.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
As a rookie, he had a nasty habit of holding on to the ball far too long and took a whopping 68 sacks while Chicago went 5-12 and ranked dead last in offensive yardage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 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
The frequency of attacks on healthcare suggests that they are "a sustained feature of the war rather than an episodic consequence of large scale offensives," the report said.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 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
Russian advances in some of its major offensives are slower than the infamous Battle of the Somme in World War I, according to CSIS.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 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
General Nicholas Yanushkevich, the Russian chief of staff, complained that his armies were “melting like snow” before the German offensives.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
Vocabulary lists containing offensive
"Diary of a Wimpy Kid" by Jeff Kinney
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