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sneak attack

NOUN

surprise attack

Synonyms

WEAK

Pearl Harbor ambush shock tactics surprisal unforeseen attack

Example Sentences

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President Biden on Wednesday met privately with families of Americans being held hostage by Hamas since its sneak attack in Israel on Oct.

From Washington Times • Dec. 13, 2023

The Korean War was triggered by a North Korean sneak attack on the South in June 1950.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 13, 2023

She exhibited strategic shrewdness as a general, cleverly thwarting an invader’s sneak attack with a preemptive ambush.

From Washington Post • Sep. 3, 2020

President Franklin D. Roosevelt called the Japanese sneak attack on the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, a “date which will live in infamy.”

From New York Times • Dec. 4, 2019

At least if he carried the ball, he’d be in full view of everyone and not as vulnerable to a sneak attack.

From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier