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Five pitches into the at-bat, Yan caught the hitter looking on an 88.7-mph slider for a called third strike.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

She and Faraj then sheltered inside the building, which was destroyed by a third strike at about 16:25.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

“In one incident guards tried to remove a strike leader soon after the strike began,” Carver wrote.

From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026

Scientists anticipated the Falcon 9 upper stage was going to strike the lunar surface at approximately 0635 GMT on Wednesday.

From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026

As the clock began to strike the hour, Penelope could barely contain herself.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

“Once I had him with two strikes I said, you know what, I’m going to throw that slider,” Yan said through an interpreter after the Mets’ 6-5 victory in 10 innings.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

"Not a single blow is random," he explains as a trio of craftsmen land expert strikes that create the darker more complex tones so prized by jazz drummers.

From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026

He has a renewed faith in the power of hunger strikes - taking inspiration from Mahatma Gandhi's philosophy of non-violent resistance.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026

President Trump called off planned strikes against Iran over the weekend after Saudi Arabia, Qatar and other Gulf governments urged Washington to pursue negotiations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

When a neutron traveling at just the right speed strikes the nucleus of a uranium 235 atom, it is absorbed and the atom becomes even more unstable.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

Even after that 'ole where 'e'd strook me wif 'is ball from the drive, although standing well be'ind 'im, and been in each bunker twice or more, I give 'im a word of 'ope.

From Mr. Punch's Golf Stories by Various

She had a strook the night afore last, and was dead afore mornin’.”

From Edward FitzGerald and "Posh" "Herring Merchants" by Blyth, James

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 Donne, John

The dreadful’st Foe their Engines must subdue, The strongest Rock through which their Arts must hew, Was great Barzillai: could they reach his Head, Their Fears all husht, they had strook Danger dead.

From Anti-Achitophel (1682) Three Verse Replies to Absalom and Achitophel by John Dryden by Jones, Harold Whitmore

I'll never strook you, nor smooth you, nor kiss you no more!

From Capt'n Davy's Honeymoon by Caine, Hall, Sir

Disney struck a deal letting creators use clips from its movies in their videos on TikTok, which will also show up on Disney+.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

After earthquakes struck Emilia-Romagna in 2012, warehouses collapsed around hundreds of thousands of wheels of Parmigiano Reggiano, threatening the livelihoods of the cheesemakers who depended on them.

From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026

Salt struck 48 from 37 while Short hit 71 from 47 deliveries, with the pair combining for a total of 11 fours and five sixes.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026

Dissent got louder after the twin quakes that struck northern Venezuela on June 24, killing over 6,000 people and decimating hundreds of buildings.

From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026

A position I’ve struck many times this week.

From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila

Videos posted to social media appeared to show a plume of smoke rising from the stricken transformer.

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026

Public alarm over the illness began to grow following reports that three passengers died aboard the stricken vessel, MV Hondius.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2026

Better equipped to mother Boy No. 2 or stricken with learned helplessness from being coddled by an expert on my phone day in and day out?

From Slate ● May 10, 2026

Evacuations were taking place Wednesday from a cruise ship stricken with a deadly outbreak of hantavirus, the World Health Organization said, as experts confirmed a rare strain that can be transmitted between humans.

From Barron's ● May 6, 2026

Herbert’s representations that, if I did, I should probably be laid up and stricken useless, when our fugitive’s safety would depend upon me, alone restrained my impatience.

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

“This makes the 10% loss look even more striking and suggests that like Situational Awareness, several other TMT Equity Sector hedge funds suffered from forced liquidations of memory stock exposures,” they said.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026

Run current-account numbers through the IMF’s exchange-rate framework, Sobel said, and you land on a striking conclusion: the yuan is 20% to 30% undervalued.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

Las Vegas and El Centro, Calif., were within striking distance of their daily records, and both Great Falls and Helena, Mont., surpassed their daily records in preliminary measurements.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2026

One of the most striking discoveries came when the black hole launched a powerful jet.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 31, 2026

I hear the sounds on the street—car tires through slush, buses braking and hissing as they lower and open doors, boots striking cement, voices talking on cell phones, radio music from a fast truck.

From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari