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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The Port of Los Angeles spent months preparing for the possibility of a dockworkers strike on the East Coast, Seroka told The Times in October. —

Caroline Petrow-Cohen, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2024 This strike on Ukraine seems to have been [the Oreshnik's] first test. —

Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 17 Dec. 2024 More than 200 Teamsters at Marathon's Detroit refinery had called for the strike on Sept. 4 after months of pay and safety-related negotiations and mediations with the refiner yielded no results. —

Shivani Tanna, Detroit Free Press, 16 Dec. 2024 As of this writing, the Teamsters hasn’t announced an active strike on its X account, its Facebook page, or its site. —

Wes Davis, The Verge, 16 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for strike on/upon

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