simultaneous attack

collocation in English

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simultaneous
adjective
uk
/ˌsɪm.əlˈteɪ.ni.əs/us
/ˌsaɪ.məlˈteɪ.ni.əs/
happening or being done at exactly the ...
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attack
noun
uk
/əˈtæk/us
/əˈtæk/
a violent act intended to hurt or damage someone ...
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(Definition ofsimultaneousandattackfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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We found this essential as we were often undersimultaneousattack.
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Anyone who tried to make asimultaneousattackon those two would be taking on a formidable target.
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In asimultaneousattack, the center piling on the bridge's west side was hit and broke the span in half.
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He successfully fights offsimultaneousattackon the convoy by two fast, manoeuvrable privateers.
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There is nosimultaneousattack, which means that if one competitor starts an attack, the other has to parry or evade and is allowed to counterattack only "after" the evasion.
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Hassan was successful at first, but there were nosimultaneousattackby any of the western powers.
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Vercingetorix ordered asimultaneousattackfrom the inside.
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However, simultaneous attacks by enemies of different parts of the plants may happen also under natural conditions.
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I am not now contemplating, as some have done, simultaneous attacks from the east and the west.
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There has been evidence of some concentrated gang attacks other than this, but this is perhaps the first time that several simultaneous attacks have taken place.
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Another third would then die as a result of simultaneous attacks from abnormal weather patterns which would create drought, destruction, and epidemic diseases.
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The armed struggle began soon afterward with simultaneous attacks on remote police stations and district headquarters.
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Clive ordered a three-pronged attack with simultaneous attacks by two detachments on the redoubt and the hill supported by the main force in the centre.
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Allowing for simultaneous attacks in multiple locations.
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