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The Uber initiative is the latest sally in a long war pitting plaintiffs and their lawyers against businesses, with legal fees as the battleground.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2026

“Plainclothes agents have been embedded in transport vans, sally ports, processing areas, and detention cells to gather important tactical intelligence and or information,” a document on Benchwarmer reads.

From Salon ● Jan. 15, 2026

As with the adoption of Casual Fridays, the first sally in the contemporary battle for comfort, there remains confusion as to what exactly constitutes acceptable office attire.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025

Chess, by and large, is a war game played by nonmartial people who would have trouble identifying the business end of an M16 or explaining the difference between an embrasure and a sally port.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 26, 2023

The lawyer’s sally induced guffaws, a courtroom flare-up that Judge Tate’s dour gaze soon extinguished.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote

She and her brood live high up in the trees, jumping from branch to branch and occasionally making exploratory sallies on the ground.

From Salon ● May 11, 2025

They’re still getting to know one another—making conversational sallies, seeking to befriend or impress or charm.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 9, 2019

Thus stoked, our commander in chief sallies forth to meet with probably the most illustrious collection of aides since Groucho hooked up with Chico and Harpo.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 11, 2017

And thanks to the generally excellent dialogue by writer-director Shane Black, the verbal sallies often leave a real sting.

From Slate ● May 2, 2013

Readers of The Times in London were told that what was otherwise an “imposing ceremony” was “rendered ludicrous by some of the luckless sallies of that poor President Lincoln.”

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith

I sallied forth, seeking a companion to go with me to see Metallica at a 6th Street club.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 2022

Yet despite a government determined to constrain their ambition and advancement, they sallied forward to become a lawyer and educator, respectively.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 21, 2022

One of these counter-offensives came in the form of an appearance from billionaire Howard Schultz, Starbucks' former chairman, who sallied over to Buffalo to vaguely dissuade pro-union workers from unionizing.

From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2021

The original movie succeeded in wasting Emmanuelle Béart and Kristin Scott Thomas, and it wasn’t really until Ferguson sallied into film No. 5, toting an assassin’s rifle, that progress began to be made.

From The New Yorker ● Jul. 26, 2018

When they sallied forth together the neighborhood emptied suddenly of not only cats but of dogs as well.

From "The Incredible Journey" by Sheila Burnford

“I tended toward … a kind of diffuse sallying through the world, staying open to the coincidence, digression, and movement,” she writes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026

Finally, some first-timers are valiantly sallying forth — the kind of debuts that’ll be more and more rare as times only get tougher for the restaurant industry under COVID-19.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 10, 2020

But sallying forth without any of them is a recipe for misery.

From The New Yorker ● Feb. 22, 2016

For both sides the primary task of this weekend then is not avoiding sallying forth on to the fiscal slope, but making sure their bindings are tight as they do so.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 28, 2012

Mark could scarcely keep his excitable friend Texas from sallying out then and there to attack some of the more active members of this hilarious crowd.

From A Cadet's Honor Mark Mallory's Heroism by Upton Sinclair