striking back
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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
A three-set victory over Gauff showed all of Rybakina's resilience and ability to absorb a setback - coming from a set down and then being broken when serving for the match - before striking back.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
In “Stranger Things,” where spider-like beings attack from their nest in the Upside Down, nature is striking back at human beings, the monsters of ecological collapse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
Van der Mescht was shown a second yellow card early in the second half, earning a 20-minute sin-binning, with South African Stefan Coetzee striking back for Newcastle.
From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2025
Chemical control of insects seems to have proceeded on the assumption that the soil could and would sustain any amount of insult via the introduction of poisons without striking back.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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