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enfilading

verb

present participle of enfilade

as in attacking

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Before extra time, Argentina had managed 39 touches in the attacking third.

— Thom Harris, New York Times, 20 July 2026
Hugging Face said that from its analysis, the AI agent attacking its systems seems to have acted entirely on its own, without any human initiating the attack or directing its progress.

— Emily Forlini, Fortune, 20 July 2026

Definition of attacking

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The race partly revolved around the war in Gaza, with Lander assailing Goldman for not being critical enough of Israel.

— Jesse Bedayn, Fortune, 24 June 2026
Rabb was propelled by a constellation of progressive groups, charting a path to victory partly by assailing his own party as listening more to donors than voters.

— CBS News, CBS News, 24 May 2026

Definition of assailing

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The New York Yankees want to add a right-handed hitting catcher, and the Minnesota Twins’ Ryan Jeffers still appears to be their most obvious target.

— Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 21 July 2026
But what does Porsha being a liar have to do with Shamea hitting below the belt unprompted?

— Ile-Ife Okantah, Vulture, 20 July 2026

Definition of hitting

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Before that, he had been convicted assaulting someone at a Berlin high school in 2019, as well as robbing someone of a pair of headphones nearly a year later.

— Freddie Clayton, NBC news, 26 July 2026
He was expelled from Framingham High School after assaulting a student.

— Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 24 July 2026

Definition of assaulting

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As part of these clashes, Israel twice launched significant air strikes on Iran—the second time ravaging Iran’s air defenses.

— David D. Kirkpatrick, New Yorker, 20 July 2026
The smoke from the wildfires that are currently ravaging Canada has made its way south of the border to many American cities, affecting the air quality and causing health problems for citizens in the process.

— Austin Perry, FOXNews.com, 17 July 2026

Definition of ravaging

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Pape Sarr was on the pitch for Senegal’s devastating extra-time defeat by Belgium at that same stage, but joins Bergvall as a Spurs player who had little impact on a tournament where his career — and market value — could really have used a jolt.

— Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 24 July 2026
Following a succession of heat waves that started even before the summer, wildfires have raged across France in recent weeks, devastating large swaths of land amid record temperatures and dry weather.

— ABC News, ABC News, 23 July 2026

Definition of devastating

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For much of the ’80s, Teresa Taylor (aka Teresa Nervosa) joined up as a second drummer, pounding tribal beats beside Coffey, and became a Gen-X icon after appearing in the 1990 film Slacker.

— Steve Appleford, SPIN, 20 July 2026
After pounding his drive down the final fairway, Fox hit his approach to just inside 12 feet and then dripped his birdie putt into the edge of the cup to win the 154th Open Championship at Royal Birkdale.

— Dan Zaksheske, FOXNews.com, 19 July 2026

Definition of pounding

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Pass the time shelling on its pristine beaches or swimming in the sparkling waters.

— Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 16 July 2026
In a new report, NPR's Anas Baba and Aya Batrawy document what daily life looks like for families trapped between expanding military zones, with shelling at night, gunfire by day and nowhere safe to go.

— Brittney Melton, NPR, 10 July 2026

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