struck
Example Sentences
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That’s by design: If another Great Depression struck, Social Security would, ideally, still be there.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026
Last month, Yum Brands struck a $1.5 billion deal to sell the bulk of its Pizza Hut chain’s global operations to private-equity firm LongRange Capital.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
In April 2016, a 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck Kumamoto two days after a magnitude 6.5 tremor.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
Hiroko Ogata, a 75-year-old restaurant owner in the city of Yatsushiro, told the BBC she hid under a table at her restaurant when the quake struck and swayed violently along with it.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
It hadn’t struck me as odd at the time, but if he didn’t know who I was, then wouldn’t he have said something more like Who are you?
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
