coups de main

plural of coup de main

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for coups de main
Noun
  • Despite the downward pressure on cost of cyber attacks, the sector continues to grow, as more companies treat cyber security incidents as a top priority.
    Ganesh Rao, CNBC, 4 Sep. 2025
  • This prevents many attacks that use lookalike domain names or hacks such as DNS cache poisoning to create rogue sites masquerading as the real, trusted ones.
    Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Across the street is a police station, where federal agents gathered before immigration raids.
    David Zimmermann, The Washington Examiner, 6 Sep. 2025
  • The Durham City Council passed the resolution on Tuesday with a unanimous vote to shield city workers against raids and arrests carried out by federal officials, according to The Duke Chronicle.
    Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 6 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Investigators later confirmed his DNA matched evidence from that case and others, including attacks in Okemos, Michigan, in 1994; Birmingham, Michigan, in 1995; and Columbus, Ohio, in 1997, as well as two assaults in Ventura in the early 1980s.
    Nour Rahal, Freep.com, 6 Sep. 2025
  • In August, Russia’s aerial assaults on Ukraine slowed markedly, with 4,288 projectiles raining down on Ukrainian cities, an average of 138 per day.
    Katya Soldak, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Most of the strikes occur in the summer, killing 20 people each year, according to the NWS.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Putin is increasing his strikes and pressing for further military gains in defiance of Trumps deadlines to enter any serious peace talks.
    Earl Carr, Forbes.com, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • And the algicide attempts may not have worked because the biomass of blue-green algae was just too large for effects to be detected.
    Keith Matheny, Freep.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Lifetime, Prater was 23-of-24 on those attempts that happened in the last two minutes of regulation or in overtime.
    Joe Buscaglia, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Both offensives also caused widespread fires.
    Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Now, both the Mayitos and Chapitos have stepped up their offensives to seize key territories, Dittmar explains.
    Rocío Muñoz-Ledo, CNN Money, 18 Aug. 2025
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“Coups de main.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coups%20de%20main. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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