raid
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In another official building across town, violin notes mixed with air raid sirens.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
One of the largest public immigration raids associated with the campaign happened in the wake of the 1931 La Placita raid on Olvera Street in downtown L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
Pesticides prohibited in Kenya are sometimes smuggled across this porous border with Tanzania and used in farms within the Amboseli area, where elephants live near human settlements and are known to raid farms for food.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
Oleksandr Avstriievskykh, 65, was in his fifth-floor apartment around midnight when the air raid siren went off.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
A uniformed air raid warden starts blowing his whistle, windmilling his arm, directing people toward an open doorway in a stone building.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
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One of the largest public immigration raids associated with the campaign happened in the wake of the 1931 La Placita raid on Olvera Street in downtown L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
Germany has carried out its first raids under a new law to crack down on smugglers using the country as a staging post for small boat crossings on the English Channel, the BBC has learned.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
The chances of a missile attack on Kyiv that night were around 50 percent, according to the administrator of a social media channel monitoring Russian air raids.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
The Forest City raids highlight a transnational scam industry that is shifting in size and shape.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
Our bombers were flying every day from Saipan and Guam to make raids on Tokyo.
From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac
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When she learned the bookshop had been raided by police in late June, Zhu broke into tears: "I was devastated."
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
In October, Los Angeles police raided the Santa Monica warehouse of CoolKicks, a popular sneaker reseller, while its co-founder Adeel Shams was streaming live on Whatnot.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
Los Angeles police raided a CoolKicks warehouse in Santa Monica last week, where they arrested the sneaker retailer’s chief executive and three others.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
"The Seoul police raided the headquarters of Starbucks Korea this morning as part of the ongoing investigation," a Shinsegae Group spokesman told AFP, declining to provide further details.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
My father hadn’t replaced the window but used the flap as a watchpost whenever police raided the neighbourhood.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
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In October 1916, in Tujunga Canyon near Sunland, a farmer named Cornelius Johnson set out a trap for a bear that had been raiding his grapevines.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Don’t tell Jason Gay, but I don’t think most of these people were raiding a college-savings plan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
It would merely be a different flavor of raiding the Treasury for personal gain.
From Slate ● May 16, 2026
“A 29% rate of preretirees raiding 10% or more of savings for a family emergency means people are going into retirement short,” Judge said.
From MarketWatch ● May 14, 2026
By mid-1780 the Cherokee resistance regained momentum when they began raiding squatters’ settlements within Cherokee territory.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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