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Recent Examples of bombings
Leading the effort is the ATF National Response Team, a specialized rapid-response force that responds to the nation’s highest-profile bombings, explosions and arson, including the 9/11 World Trade Center attack and the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
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Rebekah Riess, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2025
Rebekah Riess, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bombings
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As a kid, Saghatelian was forced to flee his Tehran neighborhood during Iraqi bombardments.—
Jack Dolan,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Mar. 2026
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The Lebanese government is actively engaging with intermediaries, including the French and the American ambassador, to try and put pressure on the Israeli government to stop the bombardments, according to Lebanese officials.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
6 Mar. 2026
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Over the past year, assaults against ICE personnel have risen 8,000%, according to the DHS, and federal police have opted to hide their faces and identities while working in public.—
Anna Giaritelli,
The Washington Examiner,
8 Mar. 2026
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In 2024, the county recorded 6,323 assaults, of which 205 involved firearms.—
JT Moodee Lockman,
CBS News,
5 Mar. 2026
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What mattered to Anthropic was a guarantee that Claude would have nothing to do with the analysis of bulk data collected domestically, an issue especially salient to its employees in the context of ongoing ICE raids.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
New Yorker,
14 Mar. 2026
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Recent raids may try to instill fear, but this special communal space feels impervious to such weak displays.—
Lilliam Rivera,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Mar. 2026
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Beyond the capital, CNN staff in northern Iran also reported major nighttime air raids.—
Jessie Yeung,
CNN Money,
11 Mar. 2026
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The family originally lived in Liverpool, but she was born in Blackpool, about 50 miles away, after Lillian was sent there while pregnant due to the risk of air raids in World War II.—
Adam England,
PEOPLE,
15 Nov. 2025
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Nation-states now pair kinetic strikes with digital offensives.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
1 Mar. 2026
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Dynamic shifts on the battlefield — with large swaths of Ukrainian land changing hands in offensives and counteroffensives in the early years of the war — have since given way to a conflict of inches.—
Joanna Kakissis,
NPR,
24 Feb. 2026
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When will these onslaughts of cold end?—
Doyle Rice,
USA Today,
31 Jan. 2026
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As servers delicately navigate around the women, serving plates of food that will never be touched, micro-aggressions are tossed, disguised as jokes.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
24 Feb. 2026
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If and when such aggressions fully materialize, the United States will lack the moral and ethical authority to credibly object.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
6 Jan. 2026
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The freshman hit one-of-two attempts, giving the Spartans a 41-39 lead.—
Brendan Connelly,
Boston Herald,
10 Mar. 2026
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Her furious attempts to extricate herself from Ramirez ended with her smacking her head on the parking lot asphalt and Ramirez hitting her in the right eye, according to the arrest report.—
David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
9 Mar. 2026
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“Bombings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bombings. Accessed 15 Mar. 2026.
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