strike on/upon
phrasal verb
struck on/upon; struck on/upon also stricken on/upon; striking on/upon
: to find or discover (something) especially suddenly
He struck on an idea for his novel.
They struck upon a salt mine.
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Twenty people were also injured in the strike on the Al-Mawasi area, Khan Younis’s Director of Civil Defense Yamen Abu Suleiman told CNN, warning the death toll would likely rise.
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Sophie Tanno, CNN Money, 30 Mar. 2025
On Monday, The Atlantic reported that National Security Adviser Mike Waltz accidentally added the publication’s editor-in-chief to a chat in which Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth detailed plans for a forthcoming strike on Houthi rebels in Yemen.
—William Vaillancourt, Rolling Stone, 30 Mar. 2025
The strike on Engels-2 near Saratov, hundreds of miles from Ukraine's border, has also been described by British defense officials as Kyiv's most successful attack on a Russian munitions depot so far this year.
—Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Mar. 2025
That means the strike on Engels may have carried a price tag of $960 million—not counting the additional damage to fuel storage and other facilities at the base.
—David Axe, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
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Sophie Tanno, CNN Money, 30 Mar. 2025
On Monday, The Atlantic reported that National Security Adviser Mike Waltz accidentally added the publication’s editor-in-chief to a chat in which Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth detailed plans for a forthcoming strike on Houthi rebels in Yemen.
—William Vaillancourt, Rolling Stone, 30 Mar. 2025
The strike on Engels-2 near Saratov, hundreds of miles from Ukraine's border, has also been described by British defense officials as Kyiv's most successful attack on a Russian munitions depot so far this year.
—Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Mar. 2025
That means the strike on Engels may have carried a price tag of $960 million—not counting the additional damage to fuel storage and other facilities at the base.
—David Axe, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for strike on/upon
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“Strike on/upon.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/strike%20on%2Fupon. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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