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Recent Examples of assailant
Ziva, though, heard gunshot, immediately grabbed for her sidearm and started frantically aiming for an assailant who wasn’t there.
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Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 4 Sep. 2025
Some critics online have argued that instead of chasing down his daughter’s assailant, Spencer should have called 911 and waited for authorities to handle it.
—Faith Karimi, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2025
The wife of King Charles III fought off a groper as a teenager by taking off her shoe and bashing the assailant in the groin.
—Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 2 Sep. 2025
The assailant reportedly fired seven or more bullets before fleeing the scene.
—Katya Soldak, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
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Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 4 Sep. 2025
Some critics online have argued that instead of chasing down his daughter’s assailant, Spencer should have called 911 and waited for authorities to handle it.
—Faith Karimi, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2025
The wife of King Charles III fought off a groper as a teenager by taking off her shoe and bashing the assailant in the groin.
—Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 2 Sep. 2025
The assailant reportedly fired seven or more bullets before fleeing the scene.
—Katya Soldak, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for assailant
attacker
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One of Mascherano’s biggest decisions was taking a defensive risk by taking out center back Lujan with the team trailing 1-0 and replacing him with Segovia, an attacker.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
28 Aug. 2025
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When users asked Comet to summarize a Reddit thread, attackers could embed invisible commands that instructed the AI to open Gmail in another tab, extract the user's email address, and perform unauthorized actions.—
Benj Edwards,
ArsTechnica,
27 Aug. 2025
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“Assailant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/assailant. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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