ambush

The ancient landscape surrounding the fossil site contained wetlands and marshes that could have provided suitable habitat for an enormous ambush predator.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

Two months after D-Day, in August 1944, Peter Ortiz led an ambush against Nazi forces in the French Alps.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

“I’m not going to ambush those guys, and I’m not going to ambush Glas,” Roberts said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026

But since the rings select their bearers by asking whether they’re afraid during an ambush designed to create dread, the test favors those for whom life never presents anything to fear.

From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026

There was a choking noise from Agravaine in the ambush, and pt once he was rushing toward the unicorn, with the slurp boar-spear in his hands.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

The filmmakers take their time revealing what long-ago crimes have so incensed Okuzaki as he more or less ambushes old comrades and superiors in their homes, confronting them with his accusations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

AFP spoke to his former business partner, ex-major Omar Rodriguez, who said that after a few desert ambushes last year, Quijano "paused" the operation.

From Barron's ● Dec. 21, 2025

Yet so much can derail them: fractured supply chains, staff blowups, quirks of locations and traffic, social media ambushes, even the unexpected, like COVID.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2025

And as climate change supercharges more storms, fires, earthquakes, and other inevitable tragedies throughout this year and beyond, prepare to have to deal with these ambushes as well.

From Slate ● Jan. 8, 2025

Sometimes these flashes of normality come at me from the side, like ambushes.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

Think of it as a tax “prenup” with Uncle Sam that you settle up on your terms so the surviving spouse isn’t ambushed by higher rates down the road.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

Then Rushing again ambushed the first pitch — a knuckle curve on the inside edge — and drove it off the right-field wall.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026

But he said disabled court users shouldn't be "ambushed by inaccessibility" and "have to undergo a resilience test" in going to court.

From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026

Two National Guardsmen who were ambushed on duty in Washington received Purple Hearts, one posthumously.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 25, 2026

During one of these pauses he was ambushed by sleep.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding

That’s still better than ambushing workers all at once with mass layoffs, some executives say.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

The turtles mainly hunt by hiding under water and ambushing their prey, he said.

From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2026

We’ve all seen the appalling videos of masked agents ambushing and abducting these migrants in the halls of New York’s immigration court as they’re leaving a hearing.

From Slate ● Mar. 27, 2026

Victor Caratini led off the top of the fifth, ambushing a first-pitch fastball and sending it over the wall in right-center for a solo homer and a 3-0 lead.

From Seattle Times ● May 30, 2024

The young bounced around the adults, ambushing one another, rolling in mock battle, and shrieking for protection when an older animal lost patience and bared its teeth.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer