adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an unprovoked attack (= in which the victim did nothing to cause the attack )
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Their teenage son was knocked to the ground, kicked and punched in an unprovoked attack.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
attack
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The unprovoked attack has left the man critically ill in hospital.
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Any Rottweiler that makes an unprovoked attack on a human being should be destroyed.
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Read in studio A man who nearly died after being stabbed in an unprovoked attack , has returned home from hospital.
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It was a totally unprovoked attack and in the end the police were prosecuted for assault.
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This was a vicious unprovoked attack on an innocent man which could easily have had more tragic consequences.
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It was, said police, an unprovoked attack .
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Critically ill ... jogger is stabbed three times in unprovoked attack .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A man died in an apparently unprovoked attack in central Oxford last night.
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Troops have been accused of unprovoked aggression against innocent civilians.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Any Rottweiler that makes an unprovoked attack on a human being should be destroyed.
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But if they were used only after proper training and in self-defence, how can that be construed as unprovoked aggression?
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It was a totally unprovoked attack and in the end the police were prosecuted for assault.
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The unprovoked attack has left the man critically ill in hospital.
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Yildiz was killed on the streets of Glasgow last weekend in what is thought to have been an unprovoked racist attack.