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ambuscade

[am-buh-skeyd, am-buh-skeyd] / ˈæm bəˌskeɪd, ˌæm bəˈskeɪd /


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The ambuscade capped a notably disgruntling week for Labor.

From Time Magazine Archive

I have experienced and feel a profound sadness for the Marines who perished in the last ambuscade of the Sandinistas.

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He lost three of the next four games before he recovered from the shock of that one intellectual ambuscade.

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Only about 700 Legionnaires managed to escape the ambuscade.

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The third ambuscade was stronger and more advantageously placed than even the two preceding.

From The Monarchs of the Main, Volume I (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers by Thornbury, Walter




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