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Recent Examples of enfiladeHood directed artillery fire under enfilading machine-gun fire.—Christian Datoc, The Washington Examiner, 12 June 2025 Tumbling forward under enfilading fire to ALEPPO Pte.—Ishion Hutchinson, The New York Review of Books, 12 Oct. 2023 Bodies were disfigured by thundering artillery bombardments and the scythe-like enfilade fire from machine guns.—David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 June 2020 At regimental headquarters, the general received reports of bad sniping and enfilading machine gun fire from the forward units.—Washington Post, 29 May 2018
In the hands of editor Richard Mettler, some of those fragments serve montages that interlace how the tribes prepare to defend themselves with the way Jalabzeen readies himself to attack.
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Carlos Aguilar,
Variety,
2 Oct. 2025
Having attacked the edge of the six-yard box, Rodon has to back-pedal and meet the ball, again, wide of the goal.
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.
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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.
But Altadena was one of the neighborhoods most ravaged by the fire, and it's located miles away from Eaton Canyon.
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Chiara Eisner,
NPR,
2 Oct. 2025
The three-day, bracket-style tournament was held on Watauga Lake in East Tennessee, a region that was ravaged by Helene’s floodwaters along with western North Carolina and other parts of Appalachia.
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