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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
Rihanna's has been candid about her relationship with her father over the years, and spoke out against her father after she was assaulted by her then-boyfriend Chris Brown in 2009 and Fenty reportedly spoke to the press about the incident without his daughter's consent.
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Charlotte Phillipp,
People.com,
26 June 2025
According to Dominguez, Smith physically assaulted Turner and pulled out some of her hair.
Soon after, they are assailed by terrible things one after another.
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Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
9 May 2025
Orlando Sentinel Bondi’s conduct was assailed last week in a 23-page ethics complaint filed with the Bar by more than 70 prominent lawyers and professors, including two former Florida Supreme Court justices and a former president of the American Bar Association.
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The Orlando Sentinel,
The Orlando Sentinel,
14 June 2025
In Please Don't Feed the Children, Destry's camera follows a group of teenagers on the run in a dystopian United States ravaged by disease.
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Tommy McArdle,
People.com,
25 June 2025
Newcomer Alfie Williams breathes new life into the pulsating horror as Spike, a 12-year-old boy who resides on a small British island with a community of survivors, 28 years after the rage virus first ravaged the United Kingdom.
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