assailed
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Critics assailed the carefully curated lifestyle presented by Meghan as tone-deaf.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 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
He did not respond to a detailed list of questions but assailed the requests in two posts on X, where he has 1.8 million followers.
From Salon ● Apr. 22, 2026
After ChatGPT launched in late 2022, a wave of proposals assailed open development as dangerous.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
The corset, of course, reminded Desdemona of her mother, and suddenly the wrongness of what they were doing assailed her.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
