dawn raid
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The effort failed, and Yoon was eventually detained in a dawn raid in January, becoming South Korea's first sitting president to be taken into custody.
From Barron's • Nov. 10, 2025
The latest federal investigation into Wiederhorn began around 2021 and involved a dawn raid on his home that December.
From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2025
Kering confirmed at the time that Gucci was cooperating with the EU regulators after Reuters previously reported the European Union dawn raid on its site in Milan, which makes such products.
From Reuters • Jun. 12, 2023
Stone and his supporters had publicly claimed to be outraged that, as a man in his 60s charged with nonviolent crimes, he was roused by heavily armed officers in a dawn raid.
From Washington Post • Jul. 30, 2022
The dawn raid rousted him and his wife from bed in their underwear, and six Secret Service agents, accompanied by an Austin policeman and Henry Kluepfel himself, made a rich haul.
From The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier by Sterling, Bruce
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