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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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Sleeper cells drawn from the remnants of Islamic State sometimes mount deadly ambushes on roads through the Syrian desert.

From BBC

When Annie Mac ambushed him on The One Show to reveal it was third time lucky, a switch was flipped.

From BBC

The friends were ambushed in an attack that lasted just 33 seconds, while Snook sat waiting in his parked car with the lights off.

From BBC

“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.

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

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