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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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Among those honoured are PC Fiona Bone and PC Nicola Hughes, who were killed in an ambush responding to a bogus 999 call in September 2012.

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

Banks is accused of ordering the murder of Tyquian Bowman, a Georgia rapper called Quando Rondo, whose cousin was killed in a botched ambush near the Beverly Center in 2022.

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

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A politician, Jonas Gahr Støre – the leader of the Labour Party - strolls outside but behind a pillar, a stooge is waiting to ambush him.

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

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