Example Sentences

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Oil prices rose after the United Arab Emirates said Iran was attacking it with missiles and Iran claimed a U.S. warship attack.

From Barron's • May 4, 2026

“It will get a lot easier to attack random pieces of infrastructure that no one was attacking before,” said Thomas Ptacek, a security researcher who is a principal at the cloud computing company Fly.io.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026

“I said, ‘Oh that’s a shark attack,’ thinking it was attacking a seal.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 14, 2026

Steve Bunn, 44, helped to stop Joshua Bowles who was attacking a US intelligence worker.

From BBC • Nov. 16, 2023

Rondon immediately thought that a jaguar or the wild boar-like peccary was attacking his dog—until he heard a chorus of voices.

From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple