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sortie

noun as in armed attack

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Beijing is already sending air and naval sorties close to Taiwan territory with alarming frequency.

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That’s appropriate, as its agents here are engaged in a kind of war, flying constant sorties against enemy forces that could spread illness across these subtropical islands if left unchecked.

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My grandfather, his father, was a WW1 ace and was on the sortie which downed the Red Baron.

Lieutenant-Colonel Abercromby, who had led the only serious sortie from Yorktown, chewed his sword in impotent rage.

Many ladies do not like to display their "sortie du soire" before a crowded room, and you will be keeping their escort waiting.

By September the enemy had opened their trenches round Perpignan, and Prignon was entrusted with a night sortie.

Bonaparte attacked Valetta, in Malta, and in a sortie the Maltese lost the standard of their order.

But the garrison made a sortie, seized the towers, destroyed them, and killed or captured the soldiers who manned them.

In a sortie Bohemond the crafty and brave was wounded; Tancred's and Godfrey's valor ended in repulse.

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

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