ambushing

present participle of ambush

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of ambushing The entertainment giant accused Sling TV’s parent of ambushing it with the offering, allegedly without consultation, to capitalize on the starts of the college football and NFL seasons. Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2025 The president has constantly mocked Powell on social media, and accused him of mismanaging renovations of the Fed’s headquarters, even ambushing the Fed chief with a new cost estimate for a facility renovation in front of rolling television cameras. Tobias Burns, The Hill, 29 Aug. 2025 Meanwhile, rogues’ daggers deal heavy damage when ambushing foes with a flurry of stamina-draining attacks. Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 6 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ambushing
Verb
  • The team has started the 2025/26 season in a less than free-flowing fashion and has struggled to put up the attacking numbers that might be expected of a defending champion.
    James Nalton, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Atalanta comes in with resilience and attacking threats, particularly in transition, but their back line has looked shaky at times this year.
    Ben Verbrugge, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Hunter has served over a decade in prison and been convicted on charges including larceny, robbery and assaulting a government official with a deadly weapon, North Carolina Department of Corrections records show.
    Chris Spargo, PEOPLE, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The neighbor, who denied any political motivations in the attack, pleaded guilty to assaulting a member of Congress was sentenced to eight months behind bars.
    Chris Boyette, CNN Money, 14 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The camera was also capturing a growing blurring of the boundaries between the Japanese and Taiwanese urban elite in colonial society.
    H.M.A. Leow, JSTOR Daily, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Instead of using a single bulky lens, the camera employs a thin mask embedded with dozens of tiny lenslets, each capturing a unique perspective of the same object.
    Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 13 Sep. 2025

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“Ambushing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ambushing. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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