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- noun Plural form of
onslaught .
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Examples
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He said in a statement in Pretoria that if policemen's lives were not safe, the lives and property of the general public could not be effectively protected against the "onslaughts" of Umhkonto we
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RIM, which is struggling to keep its BlackBerry platform relevant to business in the face of onslaughts from Apple and Android, managed to grow its shipments, to 10.2m from 8.7m, but saw its market share dip from 8.5% to 6.5%.
Apple pips Samsung to smartphone crown in fourth quarter, says IDC 2012
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Gradually, however, Europe recovered from the onslaughts of the Vikings and the Magyars, and order and prosperity threw up new buildings and new building types.
Early medieval architecture: a story of castles and churches 2011
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As academics in Lebanon, we are all too familiar with Israeli onslaughts against educational centers.
Global Voices in English » Lebanon: Academics and Bloggers Call for Israel Boycott 2009
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Growing up in war-torn Lebanon in the 1970s and '80s, I knew nothing but Syrian onslaughts.
Assad Has No Friend in Lebanon's Christians Karim Anton Souaid 2011
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While United were not retiring, Basel avoided panic and even if they did not mount onslaughts they manoeuvred well enough to guarantee that United could not achieve full command until the late stages.
Basel 2-1 Manchester United | Champions League Group C match report 2011
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, released in 2007, almost finished him off, as his hesitant courtship of a fellow Hogwarts student (the demure Cho Chang) proceeded simultaneously with the onslaughts of a rampant snakelike essence from within his own brain.
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Joe blocked, and backed, and slid around the ring, avoiding blows and living somehow through the whirlwind onslaughts.
Chapter 5 2010
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What's more, as I detailed here yesterday, the multiple rationales that these groups are advancing to justify their anonyously funded ad onslaughts are also false and misleading.
Rove, Chamber ads widely debunked as false or misleading Greg Sargent 2010
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And no film that I've seen has shown how well-armed local blacks quietly kept racist onslaughts at bay against civil rights workers needing to remain nonviolent and unarmed.
Paul Kleyman: Give The Help and Black Working Women a Break Paul Kleyman 2011
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