ambuscade
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Only about 700 Legionnaires managed to escape the ambuscade.
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The ambuscade capped a notably disgruntling week for Labor.
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I have experienced and feel a profound sadness for the Marines who perished in the last ambuscade of the Sandinistas.
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He lost three of the next four games before he recovered from the shock of that one intellectual ambuscade.
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High above the tents and resting flocks, above the nocturnal ride and waiting ambuscade, and all the doings of men the stars passed along on their glittering courses.
From The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) by Duncker, Max