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noun

ˈam-bə-ˌskād

Definition of ambuscade

as in ambush

a setup in which hidden attackers lie in wait warned by one of their scouts of an Apache ambuscade, the Comanches took a different path through the mountains

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as in to ambush

to lie in wait for and attack by surprise marching to the rescue of the besieged Fort Stanwix, 800 colonial militiamen were ambuscaded by a force of Loyalist troops and their Native American allies

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With roads around the hospital unsafe, transferring patients to other facilities was not an option in the first hours of the attack, while sending ambulances into the field risked exposing them to Hamas ambushes.

— Amelie Botbol, FOXNews.com, 5 Oct. 2026
But prosecutors disputed that story, pointing to how the Miami-Dade Medical Examiner’s Office determined that Machado had defensive wounds all over her hands from the ambush in the car.

— Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 5 Oct. 2026

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The claim that Ukraine has halted its strikes on energy sites could not be independently verified, but neither Russian officials nor media have reported Ukrainian attacks on oil refineries since the energy truce was announced.

— HANNA ARHIROVA, Arkansas Online, 14 Oct. 2026
Before the current attacks, the airport handled roughly 110,000 passengers a day — similar in scale to Miami International airport.

— Melissa Hancock, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2026

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