strike on/upon

phrasal verb

struck on/upon; struck on/upon also stricken on/upon; striking on/upon

: to find or discover (something) especially suddenly

He struck on an idea for his novel.

They struck upon a salt mine.

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Israel assassinated a top commander of Iran’s Quds Force, in Damascus, and that set off a whole chain of events which led to the first ever Iranian strike on Israel and then Israel’s response. —

Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 2 Jan. 2025 The ministry said a strike on the hospital a day earlier killed five medical staff. —

Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 28 Dec. 2024 The attack on the hospital and the removals followed a strike on a building opposite to the hospital on Thursday, which killed nearly 50 people, including five medical staff, according to the health ministry. —

Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 28 Dec. 2024 Earlier in December, local authorities reported that a Russian missile strike on Zaporizhzhia had killed at least eight and injured a further 22. —

David Faris, Newsweek, 27 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for strike on/upon

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