target

Example Sentences

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“As Canadian curlers, we were targeted. And to go out and pull her rock like that, I think it was a tragedy.”

From Los Angeles Times

"It's a brazen ambush. Whether the victim was the intended target or it was somebody that he knows or associates with or is related to will all form part of the investigation."

From BBC

Twist said a series of operations over four weeks this January and February had brought together local officers with specialist teams to target the crime "in three tiers".

From BBC

The Bank uses its key interest rate as a tool to cool inflation, the rate at which prices rise, which is currently above its 2% target.

From BBC

The measure will be "targeted in three ways", said the office of EU industry chief Stephane Sejourne -- who is spearheading the push.

From Barron's