siege
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Apple shares have been on a tear the past month, surging at a time when other big technology companies have been under siege due to concerns about the AI race.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
That landmark picture features McElwee, then in his mid-30s, as he tries to chronicle the exploits of Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman, who laid siege to the South during the Civil War.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2026
Many fear the merger will result in massive job cuts in an industry that has been under siege from consolidations and layoffs.
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026
As a medical student, Hamawy had gone to Bosnia, flying into Sarajevo on a white U.N. plane while the city was under siege.
From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2026
She has read about the siege; she has studied photos of the old town before the war.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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Similar sieges unfolded across Syria—in Duma, Zabadani, and beyond.
From Slate ● Nov. 19, 2025
This frequently happens in sieges, such as Germany's encirclement of Leningrad during World War II.
From Salon ● Apr. 30, 2024
The UN human rights chief has said sieges are illegal under international law.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2023
Human Rights chief Volker Turk said on Tuesday, adding that "sieges" were illegal under international law.
From Reuters ● Oct. 10, 2023
For three thousand years, this little promontory has known sieges.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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And at a subsequent screening he met several audience members who said they were from Mariupol and that their relatives were escaping the sieged city at the same time he was.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 12, 2023
On February 28, 1993, law enforcement sieged Mount Carmel Center ranch, the compound that belonged to Koresh and his religious cult.
From Salon ● Mar. 24, 2023
“There is quite a lot of people still remaining in the absolutely sieged city of Mariupol in some inhumane conditions,” he said during a video briefing.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 4, 2022
Over these past weekends, many of my friends have attended medical first aid courses, survival courses on how to survive in an occupied or sieged city.
From Slate ● Feb. 18, 2022
If Atla-Hi had been able to do anything more for us—that is, if they hadn't been sieged in, I mean—they'd sure as anything have pulled us in.
From The Night of the Long Knives by Finlay, Virgil
It has also levied some sanctions on those doing the sieging.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 24, 2022
So thinks Czarish Majesty, as well as Soltikof, privately, though there are difficulties as to Dantzig; and, in fine, except Colberg over again, there can be nothing attempted of sieging thereabouts.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 19 by Carlyle, Thomas
Italy, all but some sieging of strong-places, may be considered as lost for the present.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 09 by Carlyle, Thomas
But Clive's keen eyes discerned stuff for better things than the sieging of Indian forts in the young volunteer.
From A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III by McCarthy, Justin
On the other hand, that this mode of sieging by red-hot balls seems a little unusual; for the rest, that he has himself no order or intention but that of resisting to the last.'
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 12 by Carlyle, Thomas
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