Choose
Strike
Strike verb - To refuse to work in order to force an employer to meet demands.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- Final Fantasy XIII allows to sneak past the Preexisting Encounters if you choose, or you can strike from behind them to get a preemptive strike (which starts the battle with all enemies at near-Stagger).
Source: Optional Stealth - Red will more often than not wield a BFS, while Blue will choose a weapon such as the katana or the rapier that will allow him to strike with precision.
Source: Analysis / Red Oni, Blue Oni -
In Bones, Hodgins is hacked by Pelant and is forced to choose between saving his family fortune or saving a school for girls in the middle east from a UAV strike.
Source: Riches to Rags
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