as in ambushes
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 attacks
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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Noun
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In basic multiplayer fashion, there are bottlenecked spaces for ambushes, and everything loops together just fine for flanking.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
7 Oct. 2025 -
Aside from games like volleyball and dominoes, Gach says some children stage fake ambushes on one another while pretending to be government forces or rebel fighters.—
Juliana Kim,
NPR,
5 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Often, one of the pair is more offensive or box-to-box in their profile, with the other being more of a traditional, defensive-minded midfielder whose strengths are to break up opposition attacks.—
Mark Carey,
New York Times,
23 Oct. 2025
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Scatological attacks are usually the province of outsiders trying to cut the powerful down to size.—
Michelle Goldberg,
Mercury News,
23 Oct. 2025
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“Ambuscades.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ambuscades. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.
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