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Ambush

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(language)AMBUSH - A language for linear programming problems in a materials processing and transportation network.

["AMBUSH - An Advanced Model Builder for Linear Programming", T.R. White et al, National Petroleum Refiners Assoc Comp Conf (Nov 1971)].
Ambush 

the positioning of an army unit or of partisans, prepared well in advance and thoroughly camouflaged, on the most probable route of advance of an enemy with a view to defeating the enemy with a sudden strike, capturing prisoners, and destroying combat equipment. The Russian word for ambush, zasada, denoted the garrison in the cities of the Russian state of the 16th and 17th centuries. The zasada was headed by a voevoda (military commander or governor).
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Natasha, not stirring and scarcely breathing, watched from her ambush with sparkling eyes.
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
A Lion lay in ambush in the hope of making them his prey, but was afraid to attack them while they kept together.
Fables by Aesop View in context
I would mend the tire, having attended ambulance classes, do it very quietly so that she wouldn't hear, like the fairy cobblers who used to mend people's boots while they slept, and then wait in ambush to watch the effect upon her when she awoke.
The Quest of the Golden Girl by le Gallienne, Richard View in context
 
 
 
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