raid
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Appeared in the May 16, 2026, print edition as 'Washington State’s Pension Raid'.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026
The term predatory incursion is also used literally in writings of that period to refer to slightly smaller attacks like the 1781 Raid on Richmond led by American defector Benedict Arnold.
From Salon • Mar. 17, 2025
He’d hear his name called plenty during four years at Mississippi State, emerging as the go-to back early on in Mike Leach’s Air Raid offense, even if Leach also struggled to pronounce his first name.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2024
As the first chief royal engineer and one of the founding members of the 1st Airborne Division, Sir Mark was "integral" to the planning of the Bruneval Raid in 1942.
From BBC • Feb. 15, 2024
“I can’t'.” “Then tell me about Raid the Village.”
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
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