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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Cats are also known to not only knock but ring doorbells in an attempt at getting inside.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Apr. 2025
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Trump’s move is a transactional attempt to bend higher education to his will.—
Christian Schneider,
National Review,
17 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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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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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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With autonomous, always-active agents, the risk of privacy invasion becomes even greater.—
Bernard Marr,
Forbes.com,
14 Apr. 2025
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But since Hamas' October 7 attack and Israel's retaliatory invasion of Gaza, a new player in that conflict threatens not just digital infrastructure in Israel but also critical systems in the US and around the world.—
Andy Greenberg,
Wired News,
14 Apr. 2025
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“Air raid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/air%20raid. Accessed 20 Apr. 2025.
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