as in to assault
to take sudden, violent action against
law enforcement officials decided to wait before going in on the barricaded gunman
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Dunn was charged with one count of assaulting, resisting or impeding certain officers and employees of the United States, the criminal complaint said.—
Josh Meyer,
USA Today,
27 Aug. 2025 -
Eddie Delgado, an Indivisible Fort Worth organizer, said he was assaulted by an unidentified driver in the parking lot after approaching a parked Tesla.—
Fousia Abdullahi,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
27 Aug. 2025
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She had been relinquished by her owner to another shelter for chronically attacking her own tail.—
Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA Today,
31 Aug. 2025
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Examples of attacks include everything from graffiti and destruction of statues to arsonists destroying entire churches and assailants attacking churchgoers with deadly weapons.—
Robert Schmad,
The Washington Examiner,
30 Aug. 2025
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And try not to raid your retirement savings for a household expense.—
Daniel de Visé,
USA Today,
29 Aug. 2025
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Altunar and 30 others were arrested in June in Kings Mountain when about 100 Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers raided a fire equipment plant.—
Julia Coin,
Charlotte Observer,
28 Aug. 2025
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There were unsubstantiated reports of a gunman in the facility, and the ATF, in a joint operation with the New Orleans SWAT team, stormed the location with guns drawn to hunt down a gunman who never materialized.—
Mandi Wright,
Freep.com,
31 Aug. 2025
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The inaugural Invasion occurred in 1976 when a drag queen from Cherry Grove was denied entry into a restaurant in the Fire Island Pines and a group of her friends, also dressed in drag, stormed the island in protest.—
Chadd Scott,
Forbes.com,
30 Aug. 2025
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Another day at the US Open, another volley of shots sent fizzing back and forth across the net, all exchanged without a ball being struck.—
Jack Bantock,
CNN Money,
31 Aug. 2025
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Even before the hurricane struck, Boutte, her sister, a friend and the woman’s three children had all been sheltering at the property, which included the salon with a house on the top floor and a secondary building.—
Sam Gillette,
People.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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In an episode of the new HBO miniseries Task, Pennsylvania garbageman Robbie (Tom Pelphrey) briefly takes hostage one of the members of the law-enforcement task force that’s been chasing him for his side gig robbing drug stash houses.—
Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
28 Aug. 2025
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Robbie and Cliff spend their nights robbing drug houses, until a botched job leaves several dead bodies in its wake.—
Angie Han,
HollywoodReporter,
28 Aug. 2025
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“Go in (on).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/go%20in%20%28on%29. Accessed 5 Sep. 2025.
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