direct hit
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Hawaii is bracing for what could be its first direct hit from a hurricane since 1992, as category one storm Lala churns off its coast.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
It is the most direct hit between the two companies fighting for control of the nearly $80 billion weight-loss drug market.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
And any sense of a prolonged fight was extinguished in the fourth over of the day, when Emilio Gay departed and, crucially, Joe Root was run out by an extraordinary direct hit from Henry Nicholls.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
But Ivan Verbytskyi, Ukraine’s First Deputy Minister of Culture, told us Monday that all evidence points to “a direct hit by a drone on the cathedral.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
He hadn’t wanted to score a bull’s-eye at all, certainly not a direct hit on an uncomfortable truth.
From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke
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