raid

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noun

ˈrād

: a hostile or predatory incursion

: a surprise attack by a small force

: a brief foray outside one's usual sphere

: a sudden invasion by officers of the law

: a daring operation against a competitor

: the recruiting of personnel (such as faculty, executives, or athletes) from competing organizations

: the act of mulcting public money

: an attempt by professional operators to depress stock prices by concerted selling

raid

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verb

raided; raiding; raids

intransitive verb

: to conduct or take part in a raid

transitive verb

: to make a raid on

Example Sentences

Noun They launched a raid against the enemy. Weapons were also seized during the drug raid. They caught five smugglers in the raid. Verb The village was raided often by neighboring tribes. Police raided the house and found drugs. Federal agents raided the warehouse, seizing stolen property and arresting five smugglers. She raided her sister's closet to find something to wear to the party. See More

Recent Examples on the Web

Noun

Standing outside her home during the search, Kuehl told reporters she had been tipped off to the impending raid the previous evening by a county lawyer.

Michael Finnegan, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2022 Failure to pay income taxes for years led to a 1979 raid on Lewis’ home by the Internal Revenue Service.

Chris Morris, Variety, 28 Oct. 2022 The volatile reaction to the Mar-a-Lago raid confirmed a kind of apotheosis for Trump.

Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2022 Goodlett's plea makes her the first officer convicted in connection to the March 2020 raid on Taylor's apartment, purportedly to search for evidence of drug dealing by Taylor's former boyfriend.

Harold Maass, The Week, 24 Aug. 2022 Interviews with over a dozen visitors and a review of social media posts show that in weeks leading up to the raid, dozens of events were held at the club, which together drew thousands of visitors from around the world to the president's property.

Will Steakin, ABC News, 24 Aug. 2022 Trump’s lawyers offered their version of how their negotiations with the Justice Department over locating government records had broken down, leading to a raid Trump bitterly resented.

Anchorage Daily News, 23 Aug. 2022 What is your response to FBI raid of former President Donald Trump’s residence?

Aubrie Spady, Fox News, 20 Aug. 2022 Trump claimed on Monday that during the search the FBI seized three of his passports, which were not mentioned in the warrant or other documents related to the raid released by the department.

Carlie Porterfield, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2022

Verb

Elephants and other animals are known to raid people’s crops, which can lead to retribution.

Daryl Brown, CNN, 28 Nov. 2022 Climate hawks have rightly celebrated the news of Ukrainians using ebikes and electric drones for recon or to raid Russian tanks.

Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 23 Nov. 2022 He may have been provoked into battle by the ruler of Cebu, who was using Magellan’s troops to rid himself of a mettlesome chieftain known to raid the trade ships that navigated the waters in and around the islands.

Tim Carman, Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2022 Students at Tehran University protested the closure, prompting security forces to raid dormitories on campus—leaving at least one student dead and hundreds wounded.

Sanya Mansoor, Time, 7 Oct. 2022 Police are overwhelmed, able to raid only a fraction of the farms, and even those are often back in business in days.

Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2022 Since then, Pac-12 commissioner George Kliavkoff has accused the Big 12 of trying to raid his conference.

Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Aug. 2022 Watching the rest of the country raid the state is only part of why Matta isn’t in Columbus anymore.

Stephen Means, cleveland, 3 Aug. 2022 The shops remain mostly unregulated, and police still occasionally raid stores and arrest employees at the dozens of gifting shops across the district.

Karina Elwood, Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2022 See More

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