terrorist
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The police also said the situation is not being treated as a terrorist incident after consulting with counter-terror policing as part of "initial enquiries"
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
Top officials initially called Pretti, a nurse, a domestic terrorist.
From Slate ● Jul. 8, 2026
The latest efforts echo what happened in response to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, when airports that were designed for efficiency and ease of travel upended operations to give priority to security.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026
Rehearsals for the original Broadway run coincided with the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Holcenberg explained, and he was struck by audience members’ emotional responses to the first shows.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026
It was then that I remembered my aunt Angie, and that my father was telling anyone who would listen that she had put his name on a terrorist watch list.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
The red-granite and glass building overlooking Fox Studio Lot was formerly called Fox Plaza, but may be better known to movie fans as fictional Nakatomi Plaza, where Bruce Willis fought terrorists in “Die Hard.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026
Wells’ classic story was one of the first mainstream studio films to riff on America’s post-9/11 anxiety, where characters assumed the widespread panic was the work of terrorists.
From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2026
Without directly addressing the matter of those whose visas were refused, the official added: "We will not allow the Iranian team to abuse this system to sneak terrorists into the United States under false pretences."
From Barron's ● Jun. 6, 2026
Zohran Mamdani, a Democratic socialist who said his beard began as a “symbolic middle finger” to stereotypes of Muslims as terrorists, is the first New York City mayor with a beard in over a century.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026
Those who fled and became freedom fighters the government called terrorists; in the churches they were praised as heroes.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
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