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assail

[uh-seyl] / əˈseɪl /


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But sociologists in the scholar-activist mold note that Du Bois also believed in using sociological truth in the pursuit of activism, promising in 1906 to “never cease to protest and assail the ears of America.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 25, 2026

I watched this, sitting two rows behind Trump, as he turned and walked out to face the cameras and assail the process that had brought him there.

From Slate Jan. 10, 2025

In Germany emerged so-called "Herod games" in which people would reportedly stage mock attacks on churches and assail bystanders with inflated animal bladders to ridicule the cruel absurdity of the Judean king.

From Salon Dec. 23, 2024

Go ahead, criticize the Biden administration and assail its record.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 30, 2024

‘All is vain, you say, if he has the Ring. Why should he think it not vain to assail us, if we have it?’

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

In May she urged Mexicans not to watch TV Azteca, a private station that regularly assails the government.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 21, 2026

Meanwhile, the document assails America’s friends across the Atlantic.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 8, 2025

But when an unspecified disease assails T'Challa's body from within, Shuri is powerless.

From Salon Nov. 15, 2022

Her documentary, “One Child Nation,” which assails the country’s population-control policy, was shortlisted for the documentary Oscar in 2019.

From Washington Post Jan. 28, 2021

Executive Mansion October 15, 1864 Hamlet’s thoughts, his moods, fit the conflict that assails our country.

From Voices from the Past by Paul Alexander Bartlett

Critics assailed the carefully curated lifestyle presented by Meghan as tone-deaf.

From BBC Aug. 21, 2026

The competitive threat posed by cheaper Chinese substitutes has once again assailed semiconductor stocks, leading to dramatic falls in some of the biggest memory chip makers in Asia on Tuesday.

From MarketWatch Jul. 28, 2026

Roberts once signed on to a Kagan dissent that assailed the shadow docket.

From Salon Jul. 3, 2026

Since then, Pratt has assailed Bass for being on a diplomatic trip to Ghana when the fire ignited, despite a forecast of dangerously high winds and “critical fire conditions.”

From Los Angeles Times May 21, 2026

Bugs assailed the windows, attracted by the light.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

He has already moved on from assailing the frontier labs to milking them by selling them compute at a steep markup.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

GM went full speed ahead, pouring money into national ad campaigns assailing things like men eating tofu.

From Slate Jun. 22, 2025

For his part, Fauci—a veteran of numerous appearances before Congress—held his ground, assailing accusations made against him as “seriously distorted,” “absolutely false,” and “simply preposterous.”

From Science Magazine Jun. 3, 2024

HLA supporters have spent weeks assailing Szabo’s previous cost estimates for the measure.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 16, 2024

Lone men, riding wild, brought word of foes assailing their east-borders, of orc-hosts marching in the Wold of Rohan.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien




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