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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
Mace cites allegations that McIver assaulted federal law enforcement officers and unlawfully interfered with operations at a federal immigration detention facility in Newark.
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Dan Gooding
Gabe Whisnant,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 May 2025
Super Bowl winner Ray Rice and Kansas City Chiefs running back Kareem Hunt both assaulted women in the past, as well.
Democrats assailed the budget as a devastating foreshadowing of Trump's vision for the country.
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Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
3 May 2025
In New York, Governor Kathy Hochul assailed ICE for arresting a mother and her three children, from the village of Sackets Harbor, and sending them to a Texas detention center.
Prosecutors say Read deliberately hit O’Keefe, 46, outside the home a fellow cop and left him for dead in a drunken rage.
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Christopher Cann,
USA Today,
14 May 2025
With the bases now empty, Zach McKinstry restarted the rally with a single, Dillon Dingler was hit by a pitch and Trey Sweeney blew the game open with a three-run home run.
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