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But sociologists in the scholar-activist mold note that Du Bois also believed in using sociological truth in the pursuit of activism, promising in 1906 to “never cease to protest and assail the ears of America.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026

Musk found that cartoonist’s tweet and called his ban “insane,” inspiring his followers to assail r/comics.

From Slate ● Mar. 13, 2025

The problem is that Walz's cheery Midwestern normalcy has an authenticity to it that's hard to assail.

From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2024

Today, whenever Mr. Arévalo appears in public, he attracts throngs to hear him assail the government’s attacks on Guatemala’s democracy.

From New York Times ● Aug. 18, 2023

‘All is vain, you say, if he has the Ring. Why should he think it not vain to assail us, if we have it?’

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

They’re from melting insulation foam and whatever it is that gets airborne when fire assails solar panels.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

They won us over with their mild pomposity and aloofness, whereas Rapaport’s annoyance wreaks collateral damage like a chronically unbathed person’s odor assails bystanders.

From Salon ● Jan. 15, 2026

Meanwhile, the document assails America’s friends across the Atlantic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 8, 2025

He assails the sanctification of Malcolm X, saying that his most prominent biographer, the late Columbia University professor Manning Marable, “accords his hero a stature in memory that he lacked in history.”

From New York Times ● Sep. 7, 2021

From this it is not fair to infer that virtue is necessarily hard-featured; but temptation more frequently assails the beautiful.

From Coelebs The Love Story of a Bachelor by F.E. Mills Young

Critics assailed the carefully curated lifestyle presented by Meghan as tone-deaf.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

Venezuela’s acting president, Delcy Rodríguez, whose administration was widely assailed for its desultory initial response, has made high-profile appearances in La Guaira.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

The competitive threat posed by cheaper Chinese substitutes has once again assailed semiconductor stocks, leading to dramatic falls in some of the biggest memory chip makers in Asia on Tuesday.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026

Belgium’s soccer federation assailed FIFA’s lack of transparency and said it was “astonished” by the reversal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026

But as she sat there amid her guests, she felt the old ennui overtaking her, the hopelessness which so often assailed her, which came upon her like an obsession, like something extraneous, independent of volition.

From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin

He has already moved on from assailing the frontier labs to milking them by selling them compute at a steep markup.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

Pratt has been regularly assailing Bass and her record on social media, even as he promotes his new book, “The Guy You Loved to Hate.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2026

GM went full speed ahead, pouring money into national ad campaigns assailing things like men eating tofu.

From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2025

For his part, Fauci—a veteran of numerous appearances before Congress—held his ground, assailing accusations made against him as “seriously distorted,” “absolutely false,” and “simply preposterous.”

From Science Magazine ● Jun. 3, 2024

“Well, thank God Miss Annie has left for a while. Now perhaps I can play my lute without her rasping denunciations assailing me from across the alley.”

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole