ambushment

as in ambush
a setup in which hidden attackers lie in wait ambushments were a constant threat to travelers along the road to London

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Noun
  • 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
  • Advertisement An investigation led by the Guardian found in September that out of the 6,000 Palestinians from Gaza held by Israel since the Hamas terror attack two years ago, only one quarter were held on suspicion of militant links.
    Callum Sutherland, Time, 9 Oct. 2025
  • This was the worst one-day attack on Israel since the country's founding in 1948.
    Greg Myre, NPR, 9 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • An animal control office set up humane traps at the distribution center, where photos of Francine were posted throughout.
    John Raby, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The 2025 Nobel Prize for Chemistry was awarded for the creation of metal-organic frameworks, molecular structures that can capture CO₂, filter pollutants from water, or trap moisture from desert air.
    Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 8 Oct. 2025
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“Ambushment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ambushment. Accessed 16 Oct. 2025.

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