dawn raid
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Four people have been arrested during a dawn raid on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud following an investigation into the government's botched home insulation scheme.
From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2026
The effort failed, and Yoon was eventually detained in a dawn raid in January, becoming South Korea's first sitting president to be taken into custody.
From Barron's ● Nov. 10, 2025
The latest federal investigation into Wiederhorn began around 2021 and involved a dawn raid on his home that December.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 3, 2025
Stone and his supporters had publicly claimed to be outraged that, as a man in his 60s charged with nonviolent crimes, he was roused by heavily armed officers in a dawn raid.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 30, 2022
The dawn raid rousted him and his wife from bed in their underwear, and six Secret Service agents, accompanied by an Austin policeman and Henry Kluepfel himself, made a rich haul.
From The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier by Sterling, Bruce
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