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sally

[sal-ee] / ˈsæl i /


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The latest sally is a new round of export restrictions released this week.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 24, 2026

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

The tiny river fly, known as scarce yellow sally, was thought to have died out a few decades ago.

From BBC Aug. 21, 2023

We placed handcuffs and leg irons on our inmate, helped him into the van, and passed back through the sally port to the outside.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

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

Here and there decisive sallies rattled the partisans of one side or another, but most battles seemed destined to come to, uh, a stalemate.

From Slate Jan. 25, 2018

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

Maybe that’s why Jaimito went along with these dangerous sallies.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

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

Had he known, says Smith, “There is no way in the world I would have sallied forth into the rubber plantation with 100 men to face an enemy regiment with 2,000 or more soldiers.”

From The Guardian Aug. 10, 2019

But when he opened his mouth the first line sallied forth sounding like a mouse being squeezed to death by a king snake.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

“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

This is the most appealing side of Arbus: you feel a gust of Whitman, or of her near-contemporary Allen Ginsberg, in her sallying forth to compile such tumultuous chronicles of America.

From The New Yorker May 30, 2016

And so I decided to embark on my own immersive tour of those Gilded Age vestiges, sallying forth from my East Village apartment to seek the company of its obsessive modern admirers.

From New York Times Feb. 27, 2015

Those who escaped hurried to the shore, hoping to gain the boats, which lay off at some distance; when a detachment, sallying from the bastion, intercepted their flight.

From History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 by Prescott, William Hickling




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