assailed

past tense of assail
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Recent Examples of assailed The last northeastern gallery in this competition assailed Montgomerie so relentlessly during his match with Payne Stewart that the Scotsman’s father walked off the course on the front nine. Ian O'Connor, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2025 The media giant also has announced plans to acquire most of Fubo and combine the pay-TV operator with Hulu + Live TV, creating a formidable sports-centric combination that critics and at least one shareholder have assailed as a potential monopoly. Dade Hayes, Deadline, 20 Sep. 2025 The sheriff and her legal team have repeatedly assailed Cordell’s report, commissioning their own review by former Riverside County Superior Court Judge Burke Strunsky, who criticized Cordell’s reliance on anonymous sources and unrecorded interviews. Ryan MacAsero, Mercury News, 5 Sep. 2025 Staci Ibarra, another warden who left the department in May — after she was put on administrative leave in the wake of an inmate’s death — assailed a practice in which maximum security inmates had their classification downgraded. Perry Vandell, AZCentral.com, 30 Aug. 2025 Republicans historically have assailed federal efforts under Democrats to pick winners and losers in the broader economy. Kristina Karisch, The Hill, 26 Aug. 2025 Shildt assailed the logic of the folks at Major League Baseball’s Replay Command Center in New York City. Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Aug. 2025 The first seven months of his second term went by without much focus on the issue until earlier this month, when a Department of Government Efficiency staffer was assailed by several juveniles. Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 13 Aug. 2025 Our eyes are increasingly assailed by ultra-bright billboard ads, dazzling street lights, and glowing personal screens. Matt Fuchs, Time, 4 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for assailed
Verb
  • The Eagles attacked Skinner again, and the home crowd begged for a flag after the safety aggressively defended tight end Dallas Goedert, but no penalty was called.
    Nick Kosmider, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
  • In the southern border city of Sderot, which was attacked on October 7, and is frequently the target of rocket fire, a group of Israelis gathered at an observation deck overlooking Gaza to revel in its ruin.
    Zeena Saifi, CNN Money, 5 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The bigger issue is the Texas A&M defense, which was assaulted by a Notre Dame offense still figuring it out with a first-year starter at quarterback.
    Matt Hayes, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The employee, who testified under the pseudonym Mia, worked for Combs from 2009 to 2017 and alleged that she was assaulted by the music mogul.
    Kara Scannell, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • And in a different year, with a different quarterback, the outcome was the same early in Monday night’s first quarter as Higgins pivoted to his back-shoulder and slammed to the turf with a 19-yard catch.
    Luca Evans, Denver Post, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Tatiana slammed the horn and floored the gas pedal, roaring into her backyard.
    Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 29 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The list of items that authorities found when his house was raided in 1957 is pure nightmare fuel, including a wastebasket made of human skin, bowls made from skulls, a belt made of nipples, a lampshade created from a human face, and nine vulvas in a shoebox.
    Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Federal agents raided two of Combs' properties in Los Angeles and Miami in March 2024, and he was arrested in Manhattan six months later, following a grand jury indictment.
    Oliver Gettell, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Chun also scolded attorneys for Amazon in July for withholding thousands of documents from the FTC and abusing a legal privilege to shield them from scrutiny.
    Annie Palmer, CNBC, 23 Sep. 2025
  • The heartwarming video, shared on Saturday by @inboxunknown15, shows the pup sitting head down, facing the wall, looking sad and ashamed after being scolded by his owner’s girlfriend.
    Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Junior tight end Bennett Jordan outjumped two defenders, somehow caught it, and the Mountain Brook team stormed the end zone.
    Grace Raynor, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The Tigers-Guardians series brings plenty of storylines after Cleveland stormed back to take the division.
    Tyler Everett, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Two people were struck and killed by a cargo train in Little River on Monday night, Miami Police and Fire Rescue confirmed.
    David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Three plays later, on fourth-and-4, Hurts struck Smith in one-on-one coverage along the left sideline for what would have been a 30-yard gain had Barkley not been flagged for illegally shifting in the backfield.
    Brooks Kubena, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025

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