raid
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"When I went to my first raid meetup it was like a warm blanket," he said.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
Air raid sirens sounded in Bahrain, while the United Arab Emirates defence ministry said air defences were engaging missile and drone threats.
From Barron's ● Jul. 12, 2026
Marines were dropped into Beirut and Grenada, and finally, details how the U.S. launched air raid attacks on Libya in 1986.
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026
The raid stems from an investigation in May into allegations that three individuals illicitly exported the U.S. company’s AI servers to China that were equipped with high-end Nvidia chips.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
If William and Elizebeth saw the library raid as a humiliation, it was not the only one.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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After more than four years of war, many people had become blasé about air raids.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
Another demonstrator, Alex Pretti, was killed by US Customs and Border Protection officers later that month, as Minneapolis residents turned out in force to protest anti-immigrant raids.
From Barron's ● Jul. 9, 2026
Or saw the National Guard put up an armed roadblock in the middle of a shopping district last year during federal immigration raids, just blocks from my wife’s market and deli.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026
Just a year ago, many Latino neighbourhoods were living through the height of ICE immigration raids.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
“All those raids... I hope they’re paying you overtime?”
From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling
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Ms. Le Pen’s 30-year-old protégé Jordan Bardella said last week that police raided the offices and homes of contractors who worked with him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
When authorities raided and shut down the church in 2018, Zion took its ministry online, using Zoom and other tools to reach more followers than ever.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
Investigators raided the Kismet factory in Essex in May 2021 to find out what was in the kebabs, as takeaways thought they were buying lamb as advertised on the package.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
Twelve sites were raided on Monday as part of the probe, the prosecutors office said in a statement.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
The wights had done this—the same ones who’d raided our camp the night before.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
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It would merely be a different flavor of raiding the Treasury for personal gain.
From Slate ● May 16, 2026
“A 29% rate of pre-retirees raiding 10% or more of savings for a family emergency means people are going into retirement short,” Judge said.
From MarketWatch ● May 14, 2026
The 100th drawing took Max "all night", Samantha said, with Max raiding some of his sister's art supplies to perfect the flat lizard drawing.
From BBC ● May 7, 2026
And while LIV’s roster raiding and seemingly endless budget offended the sport’s grandees, it forced the sleepy PGA Tour to lift itself off the wicker couch, re-engage with its remaining talent and upgrade its product.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
Chicago’s newspapers reported ghoulish tales of doctors raiding graveyards.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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