ambush

But since the rings select their bearers by asking whether they’re afraid during an ambush designed to create dread, the test favors those for whom life never presents anything to fear.

From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026

Its fantastical elements, from the ambush on Troy led by Matt Damon’s Odysseus to a giant cyclops that gobbles his men in a cave, were created primarily with physical effects for a more visceral impact.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

Given its massive build, the snake was likely slow-moving and relied on ambush tactics, similar to modern anacondas.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 29, 2026

ADEN, Yemen — The ambush spot was good: Single-lane street, just enough space to overtake.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2026

A wax replication of the duel depicted Hamilton being shot by Burr and several hidden accomplices from ambush.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

He had survived bandito ambushes and cutthroat plots, shipwrecks and crash-landings and high-sea duels.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

The filmmakers take their time revealing what long-ago crimes have so incensed Okuzaki as he more or less ambushes old comrades and superiors in their homes, confronting them with his accusations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

AFP spoke to his former business partner, ex-major Omar Rodriguez, who said that after a few desert ambushes last year, Quijano "paused" the operation.

From Barron's ● Dec. 21, 2025

"He was very good at setting up ambushes," one of Makenga's fellow RPF fighters told the Rift Valley Institute non-profit research organisation.

From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2025

It meant hearing his loud complaints about her mother’s culinary ambushes: chicken bloody at the bone, undercooked vegetables, unpeeled fruit served with room-temperature cream cheese.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

Think of it as a tax “prenup” with Uncle Sam that you settle up on your terms so the surviving spouse isn’t ambushed by higher rates down the road.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

Two batters later, Hernández ambushed a first-pitch slider.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 4, 2026

"You do feel ambushed and it is the last thing you want to be seeing," she said.

From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026

Braddock’s column was ambushed by French and Native American forces at the Battle of the Monongahela.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

When he returned from West Virginia she ambushed him in the kitchen, and after she gave him a tongue lashing a second time around I knew he’d be seeing me next.

From "Dead End in Norvelt" by Jack Gantos

We’ve all seen the appalling videos of masked agents ambushing and abducting these migrants in the halls of New York’s immigration court as they’re leaving a hearing.

From Slate ● Mar. 27, 2026

Victor Caratini led off the top of the fifth, ambushing a first-pitch fastball and sending it over the wall in right-center for a solo homer and a 3-0 lead.

From Seattle Times ● May 30, 2024

After ambushing Guevara's guerrilla group Gen Prado was made a national hero for having defended the Bolivian military regime.

From BBC ● May 7, 2023

Ten or so members of her company ran forward with black birds on sticks, ambushing Justice.

From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2023

By the time of the great Inca rebellion of 1536, the Incas had learned how best to defend themselves against cavalry, by ambushing and annihilating Spanish horsemen in narrow passes.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond