strike
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The line was attacked across both the Riyadh and Madinah regions from drones launched from Iraq, creating more operational challenges versus an isolated strike, Shah said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
In the weekend attack, the train was evacuated just before the strike and nobody was wounded.
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026
An estimated 190,000 mines were placed in the North Sea during WWI in hopes that enemy ships would strike them.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026
I did not strike out, but I did not hit any homers either.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
“If only I could strike it with my skirt like Biri,” she sighed.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
"On the one hand it's about the economy -- this whole complex of strikes against us, our customers, the metallurgical sector, the ports, the infrastructure," said Pertsovsky.
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026
“It’s been one thing after the other: The pandemic, the strikes and then it was the fires,” said Wood, who has worked as a stand-in for Eva Longoria and Salma Hayek.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
Saudi Arabia said that that it had shut down the East-West pipeline, a crucial conduit for oil, after several strikes on the pipeline.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
When it later strikes a protective coating, that charge can suddenly discharge at the point of impact, potentially damaging the material.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026
In a wave of strikes in Western Pennsylvania, box makers, steelworkers, laundrywomen, and machinists all won higher pay.
From "Fannie Never Flinched" by Mary Cronk Farrell
O deeth, sin with this sorwe I am a-fyre, Thou outher do me anoon yn teres drenche, 510 Or with thy colde strook myn hete quenche!
From Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer
Milton uses the three participle forms, strook, struck, and strucken.
From Minor Poems by Milton by John Milton
Yes, thou hast strook Argurion enamour'd on Asotus, methinks.
From Cynthia's Revels by Ben Jonson
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
Stone still he stood, and evermore he gazed Till with the fire that from his countenance blazed Relenting Hero's gentle heart was strook.
From Hero and Leander by Christopher Marlowe
At the same time, the White House has struck deals with offshore wind developers to abandon their plans and invest instead in U.S. fossil fuel projects such as liquified natural gas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
On April 19, it struck a British mine and sank.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026
The train was struck at Yahodyn station, where shortly before a train with security advisers from several European countries and former state leaders, including former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, had passed through.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
Both Ukrainian and Polish authorities said the Russian drone had struck 2km from the Polish border.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
It began with more poetry from the Sweet Singer, who struck this time in the Parke County Courier.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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
Greensmith said he was stunned to see Shevels fall over and was one of a number of people who tried to help up the stricken victim as he lay unconscious on the ground.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
The game was delayed approximately 20 minutes early in the second period quarter after a Chaminade player became stricken by the hot and humid conditions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 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
Linda and Mark stood there, stricken, and Joaquin felt himself smash against the ground, shattering wide open.
From "Far from the Tree" by Robin Benway
In recent months, U.S. officials have focused on striking deals that are expected to bolster Venezuela’s oil production.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
The so-called grey digital divide has provided some striking examples in the nation of about 52 million, home to world-leading smartphone and memory chipmakers.
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026
The driver “lost control of the vehicle” and skipped over a curb before striking a tree, police said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
But what is striking is what it doesn't say.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
She spoke of the maidenhair fern, with its striking black stems, and the hay-scented fern that smelled, remarkably, like hay.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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