ambushing

present participle of ambush

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Verb
  • The Connecticut Conference of Municipalities recently launched a campaign attacking the governor for allowing the state’s overreliance on property taxes to worsen and for seeking to slash summer work programs that assist the state’s troubled youths.
    Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 15 Mar. 2025
  • The early glimpses show a player with real potential in the attacking third, capable of thriving in transition and striking well at goal.
    Patrick Boyland, The Athletic, 14 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • The perpetrators allegedly transported victims to isolated islands near New Providence before assaulting them.
    Daniel R. Depetris, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Apr. 2025
  • In the early morning hours when inexperienced corrections officers were on duty, the two inmates fled the kitchen, raping, assaulting and tying up two workers while en route to the tower.
    Fernando Cervantes Jr., USA Today, 9 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Ukraine launched its shock incursion into Kursk in August, swiftly capturing territory in what was the first ground invasion of Russia by a foreign power since World War II.
    Christian Edwards, CNN, 15 Mar. 2025
  • California has long struggled with chronic drought and water scarcity—Newsweek spoke to two experts about whether capturing water from fog may be able to help.
    Mark Davis, Newsweek, 15 Mar. 2025
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“Ambushing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ambushing. Accessed 21 Apr. 2025.

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