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- noun Plural form of
raid . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
raid .
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Examples
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Officials wouldn't say where they think Mahmood Karzai might fit into a web of illicit business dealings, involving various Afghans, that U.S. officials say they have mapped through thousands of hours of wiretaps, information from informants and tens of thousands of pages of documents seized in raids on Afghan businesses.
U.S. Probes Karzai's Kin Matthew Rosenberg 2010
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His statements about the increase in raids led some analysts to question whether the mission here was shifting away from a focus on protecting the population from the Taliban.
Gen. Petraeus says progress is faster than expected in Afghanistan operation Rajiv Chandrasekaran 2010
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His statements about the increase in raids led some analysts to question whether the mission here was shifting away from a focus on protecting the population from the Taliban.
Gen. Petraeus says progress is faster than expected in Afghanistan operation Rajiv Chandrasekaran 2010
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The clandestine U.S. forces “do not take part in raids in Yemen, but help plan missions, develop tactics and provide weapons and munitions.”
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All he does is note that Predator strikes have increased, and then just asserts that this has been accompanied by a reduction in raids intended to capture people.
Matthew Yglesias » Marc Thiessen: Obama is Too Good at Killing Terrorists 2010
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Soldiers and police grabbed the drugs in raids in three neighborhoods after police arrested 11 people following a shootout, army Gen. Alfonso Duarte Mujica said.
105 tons of marijuana seized in Tijuana Associated Press 2010
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Thirty suspected members of the gang were captured in raids in Tamaulipas last week.
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Soldiers and police grabbed the drugs in raids in three neighborhoods after police arrested 11 people following a shootout, army Gen. Alfonso Duarte Mujica said.
105 tons of marijuana seized in Tijuana Associated Press 2010
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This frees up considerable funding so NASA Science and Aeronautics would be safer from raids from the NASA rocket-building and operating "government industry".
Buzz is at it Again: Let's just change everything - NASA Watch 2009
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Luckily most of the artwork was recovered in raids by the police.
Lowlife Metal Thieves A Serious Problem In Vancouver « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2008
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