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The challenge now is to put those lessons to work, anticipating tomorrow’s biological threats and preparing before they strike.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

The department is pre-staging resources such as fire engines, strike teams, camp crews, water tenders and drone crews in known high-risk areas including Malibu, the 101 Freeway corridor and the Antelope Valley, she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

In 2017, workers at Escondida went on a 44-day strike -- the longest in Chile's mining history.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

Is there any risk that law firms with new, sans-serif mononyms will bend too far toward DTC branding tropes and strike some as unserious?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

They recommended an immediate air strike on the missile sites in Cuba.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

He dotted the upper rail with his fastball, threw his curveball for both swing-and-miss and called strikes, and mixed in his changeup to right-handed batters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

The ballistic missile strikes launched on Haradh and Dhahran in the Eastern Province had been intercepted.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

Yandex, Russia's largest technology company, has reported at least three drone strikes on its data centres since the start of the month.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

Isik Mater, director of research at the internet monitoring group Netblocks, told BBC Verify disruptions related to Ukrainian strikes "affect all users" globally and "websites which rely on Yandex may be partially or entirely unusable".

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

The strikes would open the public’s and the press’s eyes to the plight of America’s laborers.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler

The eight day much winde arising at the Westnorthwest, we not knowing how the coast lay, strook our sayles, and lay a drift, where we sounded and found 160 fadomes as afore.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 03 by Richard Hakluyt

In first place, body on its outer parts— Since these are touched by neighbouring aery gusts— Must there be thumped and strook by blows of air Repeatedly.

From On the Nature of Things by William Ellery Leonard

Joy salutes me, when I set My blest Eyes on Amoret; But with Wonder I am strook; While I on the Other look.

From An Essay on Criticism by John Oldmixon

It is more safe to sleep, to read a book, The Thracian harp with cunning to have strook.

From The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3) by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Bullen

Within a few weeks after I immured my self in this house, the infection strook into the town, into so many houses, as that it became ill manners to make any visits.

From Letters to Severall Persons of Honour by John Donne

Maritime Trade Operations separately issued warnings Wednesday about two container ships struck by unidentified projectiles while traveling across the Strait of Hormuz.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

Muncy struck out, and the biggest moment of the game fell to two Dodgers who have had the worst postseason production on the team.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

A Singapore-flagged container ship has sunk after being struck by an unknown projectile while transiting the Strait of Hormuz, according to Singaporean authorities.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

One of the ships, the HS Dignity, struck on Tuesday was hit 17 nautical miles off the coast of Krapets.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

About a week after the lightning strike, the economy was struck by recession.

From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith

A video released later by authorities showed how, just before dawn, a Bulgarian border-police vessel pulled alongside the stricken vessel, battling rough seas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

He was so stricken when a local restaurant mistakenly grilled his food in butter, instead of oil, that he was unconscious when the ambulance arrived.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

If so, it will inevitably bring huge social and humanitarian disruption which the stricken island is ill-equipped to cope with.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Even if they want to ditch the industrial food products, healthier alternatives cost more -- and in poverty stricken areas of East Tennessee, that's a non-starter.

From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026

What had once been home was now a place of peril and the family was poverty stricken.

From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin

Expect Raman, whom City Hall opponents have long trashed as conflict-averse, to focus on a message of possibility and positivity while holding her ground and striking back — and hard — when necessary.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

Rather than actively chasing prey, the snake may have relied on ambush tactics, remaining concealed until another animal came within striking distance.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

The International Monetary Fund has a reputation for visual excellence, and the chart the global agency used to accompany its latest world economic outlook is quite striking.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

Beyond its striking photographs, Sentinel-3C has already begun demonstrating its ability to gather precise scientific measurements.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

The children, it must be said, liked the parks best, and Penelope did manage to purchase a pretty straw hat with a long pink ribbon that looked quite striking against her dark hair.

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood