Example Sentences

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Ambushing Simcoe is fine with Abe, but abandoning his homestead is a nonstarter.

From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2016

Ambushing that Penn-Princeton cabal at the top of the league may be the defining legacy of a Cornell team that is poised to make the N.C.A.A. tournament for the third consecutive season.

From New York Times • Feb. 20, 2010