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
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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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Black and brown Californians angered at attempts to erase history, legacy and achievement under pretense of eliminating diversity and equity initiatives.—
Darrell Smith,
Sacbee.com,
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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Survivors said the attacks in Pine village began in the early hours of Friday, March 7, a day after the initial ambush by Assadist loyalists was reported.—
Tamara Qiblawi,
CNN,
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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Well, that portion of the proclamation has spurred quite an onslaught of chuckles and guffaws.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
14 Apr. 2025
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For whatever reason, the default federal approach has been to assume that U.S. taxpayers should help pay for any efforts needed to slow the sewage onslaught from Tijuana.—
U T Editorial Board,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
11 Apr. 2025
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Ukraine said this week that Russian troops were already carrying out a new offensive.—
David Faris,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 Apr. 2025
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The Rapid Support Forces and allied militias launched an offensive on the Zamzam and Abu Shouk camps and the nearby city of El Fasher, the provincial capital of North Darfur province, on Friday, said Clementine Nkweta-Salami, United Nations resident and humanitarian coordinator in Sudan.—
Samy Magdy,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Apr. 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 19 Apr. 2025.
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