strike
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The pitch, of course, was nowhere near the strike zone and, despite the pain and in an effort to see if that was a fluke, he tried to throw another.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
The men and women serving in this strike group are truly America’s latest greatest generation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
Abbas Khalil, 60, said he was doing his early morning Islamic prayers when the strike hit.
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
Now aged 20, Isaak says he was sometimes "terrified" trying to strike up conversations, but the fact everyone was studying English together gave them common ground.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
He felt each pad strike the rocks as never before.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
Talks between Washington and Tehran to pause the military strikes also appear to have stalled as both sides continue to publicly issue demands.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 16, 2026
Yet he has ultimately resisted, once again stepping back this month from options to expand strikes across Iran’s critical infrastructure and leadership.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
But Lebanon still reports intermittent Israeli strikes and broad demolitions of civilian buildings in southern villages and towns.
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
For now, however, business and consumer surveys in July rebounded from recent weaknesses seen just after the first strikes on Iran.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
This fervor was also brought about by the many labor strikes that were taking place throughout the nation.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
And thou wert the kindest man that ever strook with sword; and thou wert the goodliest person that ever came among the presse of knights.
From Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists by Washington Irving
Yes, thou hast strook Argurion enamour'd on Asotus, methinks.
From Cynthia's Revels by Ben Jonson
Mutterin' a brief—a verra brief—prayer that the Hoons would be strafed, he climbt an' climbt till he could 'a' strook a match on the moon.
From Tam o' the Scoots by Edgar Wallace
Full on his face the moonbeam strook - A face could never be mistook!
From Marmion by Henry Morley
Toys, and light elegies, my darts I took, Quickly soft words hard doors wide-open strook.
From The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3) by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Bullen
Several of Seifert's sixes were struck with such force that spectators in the second tier were cowering for safety, though it felt cruel that Allen's spectacular boundary effort went in the book as a drop.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
Emergency officials said nearly 160 houses, dozens of educational and health facilities and other public buildings were damaged when the earthquake struck the popular tourist island.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
Among Indonesia's history of deadly quakes is a devastating 9.1-magnitude tremor in 2004 that struck off the coast of Sumatra and triggered a tsunami that killed 220,000 throughout the region, including about 170,000 in Indonesia.
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
When I wrote last year about this group of longtime friends whose reunion got derailed by indecision, text-chain confusion and hurt feelings, it struck a chord with readers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
He was struck through the forehead, and the iron must have pierced the frontal lobe of the cortex.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
Rescuers were still combing the stricken area for victims, search and rescue official Fathur Rahman told AFP on Monday morning.
From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026
The stricken area is comprised mostly of towns and villages with few, if any, high-rise buildings.
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
We still don’t know what exactly is driving our national outbreak of cyclosporiasis, the parasitic infection that has stricken thousands of Americans with explosive diarrhea.
From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2026
Videos posted to social media appeared to show a plume of smoke rising from the stricken transformer.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
Mama used to tear photos from magazines, photos of the Dust Bowl years in the 1930s in America, when a long drought had stricken the Midwest.
From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata
The fighting spilled into August, with Iran striking six United Arab Emirates ships over the past two weeks as they tried to transit the Strait of Hormuz.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
He was batting just .225 in High-A and striking out even more frequently than the year before, and the Cardinals did the unthinkable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
A striking photo of homes ablaze under the headline "Houses burn and train derails on hottest day" dominates the front of the Times.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Sasaki finally escaped by striking out Jackson Chourio.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Setting the car on the ground, he put a match between the matchbook striking strip and the folded-over cover and whipped it out quickly.
From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott
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