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ambush
noun as in surprise attack, trap
Weak match
Example Sentences
In one case, human footprints appear alongside deer tracks created at the same time, supporting the idea of pursuit or ambush activity within the dune environment.
Many years later, Enrile gave differing statements on that key event, saying at one point the claimed ambush was made up, and then writing in his memoir that it had actually happened.
He ambushed Ramaphosa in the Oval office earlier this year, playing a video in which he alleged a campaign against white farmers by the post-apartheid government.
As he came off the stage, Charlie ambushed him and asked him if maybe Wachovia didn’t want to put its money where its mouth was and sell him some credit default swaps.
He was leading a mission to destroy Hamas tunnels when he was ambushed, killed and his body seized just hours into a short-lived humanitarian truce.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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