strike
Example Sentences
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Members of United Teachers Los Angeles voted to give their union’s leaders the right to call a strike at their discretion.
From Los Angeles Times
The Writers Guild of America West’s own staff union is officially on strike.
From Los Angeles Times
Dozens of people have now descended on the area and have been digging up the fenced area where the cows were once penned in, hoping to strike it rich.
From BBC
Jackson, who died Tuesday at age 84, was a talented orator and political organizer who learned how to strike powerful moral notes as a young participant in the civil-rights movement of the 1960s.
Perhaps, as a second U.S. aircraft-carrier strike group heads to the region.
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