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ambush

noun as in surprise attack, trap

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verb as in lie in wait; attack

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“It’s spilled over to the point where I get out of my car today and I’m ambushed by a media outlet here at my house,” Strahan said.

But what he couldn’t have anticipated was how quickly the Yankees would ambush his de facto No. 1 starter.

But he was killed on his third trip in an ambush by bandits.

From BBC

To make the ambush even more inexplicable for Tarrell is that his devout mom is in favor of this, too, despite being just as much a victim of La’Ron’s chaos as Tarrell was.

Stories included the testimonials of young people ambushed while they danced at the Nova Music Festival, survivors of a massacre in a kibbutz, grieving parents and rescuers.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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