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Other correspondents asked Trump why he was assailing a reporter during a national crisis.

From The Guardian • Mar. 21, 2020

Omalu said the proposition that Clark was assailing the officers, meaning he was facing them, is “inconsistent with the prevailing forensic evidence.”

From Washington Times • Apr. 1, 2018

McGovern was assailing the President on ethics and trying to get some traction on a little-known scandal called Watergate.

From Time Magazine Archive

The terrible temptation which was assailing me will now be understood.

From The Prisoner of Zenda by Hope, Anthony

The reviewer was not actuated by any feeling of personal malevolence: for when he wrote this paper in a distant country, he did not know, or even guess, whom he was assailing.

From Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron