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Recent Examples of enfiladeTumbling 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
According to the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office, Brittany Walker and Samuel Payton allegedly assaulted the victim, a 44-year-old man who uses a wheelchair, in a Detroit apartment on Jan. 29, FOX 2 Detroit reported.
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Bailey Richards,
People.com,
28 Apr. 2025
Perhaps the single most disturbing sequence in The Fall of Diddy is surveillance camera video from 2016 that shows Combs assaulting his then-girlfriend Cassie Ventura in a California hotel.
According to Haynes, Lillard is motivated to attack his rehab and return to form.
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Mohammed Soliman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Apr. 2025
According to a 2021 report by the Lowy Institute, almost one in five Chinese Australians reported being physically threatened or attacked in the previous year.
Trump had assailed Bezos and his companies during his first term.
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Francesca Chambers,
USA Today,
30 Apr. 2025
And why, in a moment of barbed stories assailing theatrical movie budgets and picture pickers, theatrical moviegoing’s future falls to its best artists, and the studio execs who bet on their big creative swings.
Pacers guard Tyrese Haliburton hit the game-winning shot, crossing over Antetokounmpo and driving to the basket for a right-handed layup with 1.3 seconds left.
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Chantz Martin,
FOXNews.com,
2 May 2025
More than 900 flights were halted across the U.S. on Wednesday, with Dallas Fort Worth International Airport hit the hardest with more than 700 of those cancellations.
Four months ago, in the weeks after the devastating wildfires that ravaged Pacific Palisades, Roberts received a message from a friend involved with the Palisades Charter High School baseball team, inviting him to speak at one of their preseason practices.
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Jack Harris,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Apr. 2025
Other crags—like Elephant Knob in the Sierras, and parts of Cochiti Mesa, New Mexico—are permanently unclimbable, even decades after the fires ravaged the area.
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