as in attempt
an attack in which a place is bombed by military airplanes
Much of the city was destroyed in an air raid.
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Recent Examples of air raid
If anything, phonk radiates a pure anti-politics, a cursed air raid siren for the polycrisis.
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Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 26 Mar. 2025
All of western Ukraine -- and much of the rest of the country -- was placed under air raid alerts in the early hours of Tuesday.
—David Brennan, ABC News, 25 Feb. 2025
Meanwhile, all of Ukraine was under air raid alerts early Tuesday after the country's air force warned of Russian missile attacks, which prompted scrambling of Polish aircraft and of other allies over Polish airspace.
—Richard Engel, NBC News, 25 Feb. 2025
Kyiv Under Fire In Kyiv, where the air raid alert lasted over nine hours, missile debris fell in one of the city's neighborhoods, officials said.
—Amir Daftari, Newsweek, 28 Nov. 2024
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Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 26 Mar. 2025
All of western Ukraine -- and much of the rest of the country -- was placed under air raid alerts in the early hours of Tuesday.
—David Brennan, ABC News, 25 Feb. 2025
Meanwhile, all of Ukraine was under air raid alerts early Tuesday after the country's air force warned of Russian missile attacks, which prompted scrambling of Polish aircraft and of other allies over Polish airspace.
—Richard Engel, NBC News, 25 Feb. 2025
Kyiv Under Fire In Kyiv, where the air raid alert lasted over nine hours, missile debris fell in one of the city's neighborhoods, officials said.
—Amir Daftari, Newsweek, 28 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for air raid
Noun
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Trump also survived two assassination attempts in July and September.—
Landon Mion,
FOXNews.com,
5 Apr. 2025
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The Wild finally gained possession, worked it up the wall and Ryan Hartman’s low-speed attempt at an exit was picked off by Dobson and his shot was tipped past Filip Gustavsson by Casey Cizikas 36 seconds after Zuccarello’s goal.—
Michael Russo,
New York Times,
5 Apr. 2025
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On hilltops along the Mediterranean coast, Syria’s new General Security forces faced ambushes and attacks.—
Dominique Soguel,
Christian Science Monitor,
28 Mar. 2025
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Rubicon’s operators clearly possess the skill and experience necessary to land a drone as part of a complex aerial ambush.—
David Axe,
Forbes,
17 Mar. 2025
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Beijing has also softened its regulatory assault on Chinese technology companies and the property sector.—
Jacky Wong,
WSJ,
6 Feb. 2023
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Zelenskyy has warned for weeks that Moscow aims to step up its assault after about two months of virtual stalemate along the front line that stretches across the south and east.—
Reuters,
NBC News,
31 Jan. 2023
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One of them is in the courts, which have stepped in to slow down this unconstitutional onslaught.—
Raja Krishnamoorthi,
Newsweek,
13 Mar. 2025
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But, amid the onslaught of threats and the prospect of economic pain, polls show voters in both border countries are rallying to their defiant leaders.—
Cybele Mayes-Osterman,
USA TODAY,
12 Mar. 2025
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So far the controversial operation has yet to take out any key gang leaders, and has led to a regrouping by gangs, which have gone on the offensive.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
25 Mar. 2025
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The growing abundance of vehicles of all sorts—unarmored and armored—speaks to the intensity of the overlapping Russian offensives that have kicked off along multiple sectors in eastern Ukraine and western Russia in the last 18 months.—
David Axe,
Forbes,
24 Mar. 2025
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Troops from China, which is Russia's closest trading partner but officially neutral on Vladimir Putin's full-scale invasion, would mark an escalation in the war.—
Daniel R. Depetris,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Apr. 2025
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The former ballerina’s arrest and conviction came amid a spike in Russian detainments of American citizens following the country’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, according to the AP.—
Sean Neumann,
People.com,
10 Apr. 2025
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“Air raid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/air%20raid. Accessed 17 Apr. 2025.
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