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So far this month, Ohtani has been unable to catch up to fastballs in the middle of the strike zone, pitches he’d typically send into the stratosphere.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

As a viewer, the biggest strike against Holmes is this documentary’s very existence.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

It was unclear whether the strike would halt production, but a union representing mine operators warned that its members would stop work if minimum safety conditions were not met.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

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

But one thing is certain: the more radiation a person is exposed to, the greater the odds that it will strike a cell’s DNA.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

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

Saudi airlines are racing to evacuate up to $4 billion worth of aircraft from Riyadh Airport following deadly Houthi missile strikes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

While Russian strikes on cargo ships docked in Ukrainian ports or close to the Ukrainian coast are common, strikes have also lately started hitting ships much closer to the coasts of Romania and Bulgaria.

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

When it became clear that the owners had no intention of doing so, workers began organizing strikes.

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

Well Sir, I did more than this, When Cassilane crav'd from the common treasure Pay for his Souldiers, I strook home, and lent him An hundred thousand Duckets.

From The Laws of Candy Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (3 of 10) by Francis Beaumont

An' this very blessed mornin' av light I was strook onsensible an' left a livin' corpse, an' my lodgin's penethrated an' all the thruck mishandled an' bruk up behind me back.

From Martin Hewitt, Investigator by Arthur Morrison

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 Harold Whitmore Jones

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

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

Hernández and Tommy Edman struck out in order to end the inning.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

That is more than the number of vessels struck in all of September.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 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

But what struck me was how light and bright the models seemed compared to the heavy portraits right next door.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

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

Then, William Hyde, a middle-aged Black man born and bred in Nashville, looked dumbfounded—he too had been stricken by Chud.

From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026

The stricken area is comprised mostly of towns and villages with few, if any, high-rise buildings.

From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026

He is blushing again and looks to me, stricken, for help.

From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse

The club's recruitment department is working on potential targets for January given it is accepted the strategy of not signing left-back competition for Luke Shaw and striking support for Benjamin Sesko was flawed.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

The primary suite features a handful of the striking stained-glass windows that appear throughout the home, harkening back to the property’s roots as the Peace Church.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026

One striking example is white matter, the tissue containing nerve fibers that connect different brain regions.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026

Especially Aaron Ashby, who has pitched in both games, holding the Dodgers to a walk in 3 2/3 innings, striking out three.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

“It did not take me long before I wore the striking uniform of the Hitler Youth....I could only promise my father that I would think about what he had told me.”

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti