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ambushed

verb

past tense of ambush

as in attacked

to lie in wait for and attack by surprise the king's enemies planned to ambush the royal coach on the way to Paris and capture the king

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Recent Examples of ambushed The same 1-2 punch that ambushed Cambridge with 52 points in the Dave Hunter + Corky Kell Classic beat South Gwinnett on Friday 55-20. — Jack Leo, AJC.com, 4 Sep. 2026 Belle and Cal were ambushed in the finale and shot at by gunmen who were later revealed to be hired by Tom Wheeler, and the episode ended without confirming either of their fates. — Julia Moore, PEOPLE, 2 Sep. 2026 Lakanwal ambushed the Guard members outside a subway station three blocks from the White House, according to prosecutors. — Michael Kunzelman, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2026 Tete was arriving at his residence and waiting for the gate to open when he was ambushed by two armed suspects. — ABC News, 24 Aug. 2026 As Cole is driving Tibu back from a passing-of-the-torch party, the two are ambushed, and Tibu is killed. — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 19 Aug. 2026 While there was a period of harmony between the two coasts, that imploded after Shakur was ambushed at a Times Square recording studio in November 1994. — Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2026 On the day Tran was ambushed, the vehicle circled the area 16 times before the shooting, according to investigators. — Faith Karimi, CNN Money, 8 Aug. 2026 Tae-ha, who is in Japan on business for Sang-gil, is ambushed by a bunch of men. — Kayti Burt, Time, 7 Aug. 2026

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On her second set point chance, Sabalenka attacked hard down the middle.

— Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
Fresh off a recent campaign visit to Michigan, Vance above all aimed at Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Michigan, who the vice president has attacked aggressively for invoking his wife, Usha Vance, on the campaign trail.

— Joey Garrison, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of attacked

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According to the indictment, defendants allegedly kept Nordquist confined, forced him to stand or kneel facing the wall, physically assaulted him and poured bleach on him, amongst many other forms of extreme torture.

— WCCO Staff, CBS News, 9 Sep. 2026
An attack on two women outside a Lavender Heights nightclub early Monday, days after a member of the city’s LGBTQ community was assaulted, stoked new safety concerns in the midtown Sacramento neighborhood.

— Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 8 Sep. 2026

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But that undertaking, primarily fueled by private dollars, has been waylaid due to getting a needed booster flight-qualified.

— Leonard David, Space.com, 3 Sep. 2026
What had been perhaps Buxton’s finest overall season has been waylaid by a hip impingement that’s twice landed him on the IL and wrecked his production even when on the field since the start of July.

— Grant Brisbee, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of waylaid

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Some were excellent in ways that surprised me and compelled me to see more, some were familiar or forgettable, and others even at just a few minutes in length felt unbearably long.

— Brian Welk, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2026
According to an industry report by Luminate, the first half of 2026 saw a 16 percent surge in CD sales — and you might be surprised by who’s buying them.

— Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of surprised

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Israel captured East Jerusalem and the West Bank in the 1967 war.

— Oren Liebermann, CNN Money, 8 Sep. 2026
One of the iconic Chicago Bears photos from 1985, shot during a minicamp practice in the spring, captured Walter Payton with one finger on his left hand tugging down the shorts of fullback Matt Suhey, who was lined up in the I-formation.

— Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 8 Sep. 2026

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