as in attempt
an attack in which a place is bombed by military airplanes
Much of the city was destroyed in an air raid.
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Hezbollah kept up its rocket fire into Israel on Friday, setting off air raid sirens just north of Tel Aviv.
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Bassem Mroue, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2024
From the ground are heard the attendant booms, the wail of air raid sirens, and the beating of footsteps running to shelter.
—Dina Kraft, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Oct. 2024
Rutte met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv as air raid sirens twice went off in the Ukrainian capital.
—Hanna Arhirova and Samya Kullab, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2024
Israel strikes more targets and Hezbollah fires rockets The Israeli military official said Hezbollah had launched rockets at central Israel, setting off air raid sirens and wounding a man.
—Aamer Madhani, TIME, 1 Oct. 2024
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Bassem Mroue, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2024
From the ground are heard the attendant booms, the wail of air raid sirens, and the beating of footsteps running to shelter.
—Dina Kraft, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Oct. 2024
Rutte met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv as air raid sirens twice went off in the Ukrainian capital.
—Hanna Arhirova and Samya Kullab, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2024
Israel strikes more targets and Hezbollah fires rockets The Israeli military official said Hezbollah had launched rockets at central Israel, setting off air raid sirens and wounding a man.
—Aamer Madhani, TIME, 1 Oct. 2024
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But Trump’s attempts to unilaterally dictate election results are different.Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 25 Oct. 2024
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That initiative, designed to be a second shot at mass debt relief after the Supreme Court struck down President Biden’s first attempt last year, would focus relief on four categories of borrowers.Adam S. Minsky, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
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In 2015, Congress established a national Blue Alert system through the Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu National Blue Alert Act, named after two New York City police officers who were killed in an ambush attack.Lauren De Young, The Arizona Republic, 4 Oct. 2024
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The soldiers captured their ambush on video; Russian propaganda channels posted the video this week.David Axe, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024
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Beijing has also softened its regulatory assault on Chinese technology companies and the property sector.Jacky Wong, WSJ, 6 Feb. 2023
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Zelenskyy has warned for weeks that Moscow aims to step up its assault after about two months of virtual stalemate along the front line that stretches across the south and east.Reuters, NBC News, 31 Jan. 2023
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Some of the same onslaught is common along the Venice Beach boardwalk and the nearby Santa Monica Pier, though L.A.’s vast horizontal sprawl helps isolate the masses from most locals, most of the time.David Bloom, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
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Osborn, a Navy veteran, mechanic and union leader, has received an onslaught of outside funding, forcing Republicans to redouble their efforts in a race that was thought to be an easy win.Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2024
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Israel’s offensive has killed more than 42,000 Palestinians in Gaza and wounded tens of thousands, according to local health authorities, who don’t say how many were combatants but say more than half were women and children.Farnoush Amiri, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2024
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Israel’s offensive has killed over 42,000 Palestinians, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.Annie Ma, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Oct. 2024
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John Grant chief analyst at OAG Rising costs Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the EU and the United Kingdom, along with other Western nations, imposed a blanket flight ban on Russian aircraft.Monica Pitrelli, CNBC, 25 Oct. 2024
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The Woodward revelations of Trump’s affection for Putin following Russia’s unprovoked invasion of a peaceful sovereign neighbor is even more alarming given Trump’s prospective return to office.Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, TIME, 24 Oct. 2024
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