assault
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In March, the High Representative for Gaza on the Board of Peace, Nickolay Mladenov, laid out a detailed plan for Palestinian armed groups to decommission their weapons, starting with rockets, explosives and assault rifles.
From BBC • May 7, 2026
A Salvadoran man who was shot multiple times by ICE agents has been charged with assault on a federal officer.
From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2026
“We stand on the walls, sentinels of the inner sanctum, against the assault of AI slop. The Ontology is based firmly in reality—there is, here, a dialectic between ground truth, tribal knowledge, and enhancements.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026
For countless Northerners, Brooks’s assault on Sumner distilled the sense of entitlement held by the South’s ruling elite, who had dominated the national government since its founding.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026
It was no brigand or orc-chieftain that ordered the assault upon the Lord of Mordor’s greatest foe.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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