raid
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The background to Mountbatten-Windsor's arrest in February has emerged in legal documents, when police asked a judge for warrants to raid the former prince's homes.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
She encouraged residents to take care of their neighbors during increased raid activity by offering rides to those afraid to drive or use public transit, delivering groceries or walking their neighbors’ children to school.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
A major American bombing raid struck Vemork on November 16, 1943, contributing to the eventual end of heavy water production there.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
A resident of one of the buildings that was hit, who identified herself as Iryna, 69, said she just had time to seek refuge in the toilets after receiving an air raid warning.
From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2026
More than a decade later, she told a confidant that the raid “was what one might have expected of Nazi Germany, but not of the United States.”
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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The criminal investigation is ongoing and the items seized in the raids on his homes in Norfolk and Berkshire will remain in police custody while his legal challenge over this material continues.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
At the peak of enforcement operations, some 35% of scheduled visits to St. John’s Community Health’s clinics were no-shows, up from 9% before the raids began, president Jim Mangia said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026
During air raids, Mygal makes Sofiyka a bed in the windowless bathroom, the safest place in their apartment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
During air raids, GPS jamming means phone navigation apps often don’t work properly, posing a problem for many taxi drivers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
November 7: The first Palmer raids are carried out in twenty-three American cities.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
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Builders report that immigration agents have frequently pulled over workers driving with construction materials and raided building sites.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Arcadia Police Department said at the time the couple's house was first raided that the children ranged in age from two months to 13 years old, but most were between one and three years old.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
Indonesian authorities raided a prison outside Jakarta Wednesday where inmates have allegedly been paying to live in luxury, emptying several "villas" of furniture, bottles of alcohol and at least one big-screen TV.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
On Sept. 30, 2020, law enforcement raided Navatek’s Honolulu offices and arrested Kao for fraud.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
“You see, when Lucius Malfoy was arrested, we raided his house. We took away everything that might have been dangerous.”
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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In October 1916, in Tujunga Canyon near Sunland, a farmer named Cornelius Johnson set out a trap for a bear that had been raiding his grapevines.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
The companies on the AI frontier that are raiding universities for all kinds of talent can offer unimaginable salaries and stock options.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
Some 35 bodies and more than 100 sets of ashes were found by police raiding Legacy Independent Funeral Directors in Hull in March 2024.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
It would merely be a different flavor of raiding the Treasury for personal gain.
From Slate ● May 16, 2026
“Heard you’ve been raiding my shops,” he said.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
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