target
Example Sentences
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Martine Letterie, one of the campaign's organisers, said concentration camps were increasingly the target of vandalism, including far-right imagery daubed on sites.
From Barron's
In Israel, millions of people rushed to shelters as more than a half-dozen waves of Iranian attacks targeted large parts of the country.
From Los Angeles Times
But by some measures waiting time are actually up - the number of patients waiting longer than the target times for both diagnostics and therapies has risen to the highest on record since 2024.
From BBC
"The new Fifa regulations, combined with targeted development programmes, mark an important investment in the current and future generation of female coaches."
From BBC
In part that target sends a signal from the senior Communist Party leadership to other officials that Beijing will tolerate some of the pain of an economic adjustment.
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