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In an interview on Friday with CNN, Giuffra said: "She's under siege on social media where people are trying to identify her."

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

Supply chains that transform crude into fuel are still under siege, and that is keeping prices high—helping drive a brutal bond selloff.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

During the 1710 siege of Tallinn, for example, the disease killed Swedish and Russian soldiers as well as civilians.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026

Srebrenica, a mainly Muslim town in eastern Bosnia, falls to Bosnian Serb troops shortly after the start of the siege of the capital Sarajevo at the beginning of the Bosnian war in April 1992.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

Dad had just turned forty when the Feds laid siege to the Weavers, an event that confirmed his worst fears.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

Modern battlefields are increasingly urban; sieges increasingly prolonged; hunger increasingly systematic.

From Slate ● Nov. 19, 2025

We stretch beyond the cathedral and onto Pamplona’s city walls, where the stone holds centuries of sieges, prayers, and heartbreak.

From Salon ● Nov. 8, 2025

The UN human rights chief has said sieges are illegal under international law.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2023

Turk said Israel's "imposition of sieges that endanger the lives of civilians by depriving them of goods essential for their survival is prohibited under international humanitarian 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

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

And 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 ● Jan. 23, 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

He knows every foot of the ground, having sieged here, in his boyhood, once before.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 15 by Thomas Carlyle

It has also levied some sanctions on those doing the sieging.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 24, 2022

The admiral's power exceedeth the king's," wrote Cecil to Nicholas White: "he is sieging of Poitiers, the winning or losing whereof will make an end of the cause.

From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Volume 2 by Henry Martyn Baird

The War, since Friedrich got out of it, does not abate in animosity, nor want for bloodshed, battle and sieging; but offers little now memorable.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 16 by Thomas Carlyle

He knew that before him lay the culminating battle of his long and ardent sieging of Fortune's stronghold.

From The Trail of the Axe A Story of Red Sand Valley by Ridgwell Cullum

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 Thomas Carlyle