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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Tensions spiked again last month when the U.S. conducted airstrikes on three nuclear sites in Iran, prompting Iranian retaliation with a strike on a U.S. military base in Qatar.
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Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 July 2025
Smoke billows after an Israeli strike on Gaza City on June 28.Omar Al-Qattaa / AFP - Getty Images file
Much of Gaza has been reduced to a wasteland during more than 21 months of war and there are fears of accelerating starvation.
—Reuters, NBC news, 20 July 2025
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an online update Saturday morning that six people were injured, including a child in the strike on Odesa, a port city on the Black Sea.
—Filip Timotija, The Hill, 19 July 2025
Israeli strikes killed at least 18 Palestinians overnight and into Friday, including a strike on a home in the southern city of Khan Younis that killed four members of the same family, according to morgue records at Nasser Hospital, which received the bodies.
—Arkansas Online, 19 July 2025
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Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 July 2025
Smoke billows after an Israeli strike on Gaza City on June 28.Omar Al-Qattaa / AFP - Getty Images file
Much of Gaza has been reduced to a wasteland during more than 21 months of war and there are fears of accelerating starvation.
—Reuters, NBC news, 20 July 2025
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an online update Saturday morning that six people were injured, including a child in the strike on Odesa, a port city on the Black Sea.
—Filip Timotija, The Hill, 19 July 2025
Israeli strikes killed at least 18 Palestinians overnight and into Friday, including a strike on a home in the southern city of Khan Younis that killed four members of the same family, according to morgue records at Nasser Hospital, which received the bodies.
—Arkansas Online, 19 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for strike on/upon
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“Strike on/upon.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/strike%20on%2Fupon. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.
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