offensive
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Remember the thought that new offensive coordinator Mike McDaniel would unlock all the potential of Herbert?
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026
“Any way you can shoot yourself in the foot, we were doing it on the offensive side of the ball,” Stafford said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
Films like “That Thing You Do!” are neither notable nor offensive to the typical viewer, and they never make you wonder “Who is this for?”
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
The foes have traded strikes since the Houthis seized all of Yemen's Red Sea coast and took control of the Bab al-Mandab strait in a lightning offensive.
From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026
But then their offensive sputtered to a halt as infantrymen and horse-drawn artillery became ensnared in the obstacle course of churned-up fields, abandoned trenches, and shattered roads left from the Battle of the Somme.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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It said that "consistent and indiscriminate drone attacks and ground offensives constitute clear violations of ceasefire agreements by the DRC".
From Barron's ● Mar. 2, 2026
Russian advances in some of its major offensives are slower than the infamous Battle of the Somme in World War I, according to CSIS.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 2026
He shouldn’t have lasted two innings but he survived, squelching early Dodger offensives and holding them to those two early runs while completing four innings despite three walks and four hits.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2025
At the same time, Russia was fortifying its defensive lines, converting its economy to war production, conscripting hundreds of thousands of fighters and adjusting its strategy for renewed offensives this winter.
From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2024
General Nicholas Yanushkevich, the Russian chief of staff, complained that his armies were “melting like snow” before the German offensives.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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"Diary of a Wimpy Kid" by Jeff Kinney
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