raid
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She encouraged residents to take care of their neighbors during increased raid activity by offering rides to those afraid to drive or use public transit, delivering groceries or walking their neighbors’ children to school.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
A major American bombing raid struck Vemork on November 16, 1943, contributing to the eventual end of heavy water production there.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
A resident of one of the buildings that was hit, who identified herself as Iryna, 69, said she just had time to seek refuge in the toilets after receiving an air raid warning.
From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2026
So did every AI video that depicted him as a Viking, crossing the Atlantic in a wooden longboat, ready to raid East Rutherford, New Jersey.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
An air raid had shattered all the louvers in the windows of the theater and the evening breeze blew some of the actors’ words away.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Immigration raids have primarily hit trades such as roofers, painters and framers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
The data mirrors what other clinics serving low-income patients saw during the raids.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026
During air raids, GPS jamming means phone navigation apps often don’t work properly, posing a problem for many taxi drivers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
Previous disruption to subway services during air raids forced her to spend the night in a metro station near the Southern Bridge.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
American forces, the caller explained, were heavily involved in planning and carrying out those raids.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
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Builders report that immigration agents have frequently pulled over workers driving with construction materials and raided building sites.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
In July 2025, the couple's home was first raided by authorities, who took 21 children into state custody.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
Indonesian authorities raided a prison outside Jakarta Wednesday where inmates have allegedly been paying to live in luxury, emptying several "villas" of furniture, bottles of alcohol and at least one big-screen TV.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
On Sept. 30, 2020, law enforcement raided Navatek’s Honolulu offices and arrested Kao for fraud.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
Another group raided a hardware store, bought a roll of tar paper, and contrived to make raincoats out of it.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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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
“They’re raiding the Smithsonian,” said Joe Stief, a Virginia-based investment firm associate who oversees Keep the Shuttle, a 4,000-member advocacy group opposed to the move.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 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
We waited until dusk, after the dump caretaker left, before raiding for treasures because we had no money to buy them.
From "The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child" by Francisco Jiménez
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