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sally

[sal-ee] / ˈsæl i /


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The latest sally is a new round of export restrictions released this week.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 24, 2026

The Uber initiative is the latest sally in a long war pitting plaintiffs and their lawyers against businesses, with legal fees as the battleground.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 16, 2026

“Plainclothes agents have been embedded in transport vans, sally ports, processing areas, and detention cells to gather important tactical intelligence and or information,” a document on Benchwarmer reads.

From Salon Jan. 15, 2026

Chess, by and large, is a war game played by nonmartial people who would have trouble identifying the business end of an M16 or explaining the difference between an embrasure and a sally port.

From Washington Times Sep. 26, 2023

Tyrion unsheathed his axe, wheeled the stallion around, and trotted toward the sally port.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

She and her brood live high up in the trees, jumping from branch to branch and occasionally making exploratory sallies on the ground.

From Salon May 11, 2025

“He’s someone who sallies forth and soldiers on and gets unusual oxygen from the steepest climbs and most vexing situations,” she said.

From Washington Post Dec. 17, 2019

The appropriate, time-honored response to the fool’s sallies is to take instruction from them.

From The Guardian Feb. 9, 2017

Museumgoers drop these sallies with a smirk, but to my ears, these would-be witticisms just sound sad.

From Slate Sep. 1, 2015

Cluny’s horde was only making spasmodic sallies from the ditch now.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

I sallied forth, seeking a companion to go with me to see Metallica at a 6th Street club.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 27, 2022

Yet despite a government determined to constrain their ambition and advancement, they sallied forward to become a lawyer and educator, respectively.

From Washington Post Mar. 21, 2022

One of these counter-offensives came in the form of an appearance from billionaire Howard Schultz, Starbucks' former chairman, who sallied over to Buffalo to vaguely dissuade pro-union workers from unionizing.

From Salon Dec. 25, 2021

The original movie succeeded in wasting Emmanuelle Béart and Kristin Scott Thomas, and it wasn’t really until Ferguson sallied into film No. 5, toting an assassin’s rifle, that progress began to be made.

From The New Yorker Jul. 26, 2018

Fitting their plated helmets on their heads they sallied out, Odysseus in the lead.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

All that sallying takes her down some unexpected byways.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 20, 2026

Finally, some first-timers are valiantly sallying forth — the kind of debuts that’ll be more and more rare as times only get tougher for the restaurant industry under COVID-19.

From Seattle Times Oct. 10, 2020

This is the most appealing side of Arbus: you feel a gust of Whitman, or of her near-contemporary Allen Ginsberg, in her sallying forth to compile such tumultuous chronicles of America.

From The New Yorker May 30, 2016

And so I decided to embark on my own immersive tour of those Gilded Age vestiges, sallying forth from my East Village apartment to seek the company of its obsessive modern admirers.

From New York Times Feb. 27, 2015

In case of compression from thick ice, having contact with the ship’s sides to a considerable depth, the resistance to the sallying would, of course, be much increased, and, by consequence, the operation less effective.

From Memorials of the Sea My Father: Being Records of the Adventurous Life of the Late William Scoresby, Esq. of Whitby by Scoresby, William




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