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onslaught

[on-slawt, awn-] / ˈɒnˌslɔt, ˈɔn- /


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But the video was met with a new onslaught of concern over her physical appearance.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

After leading American AI technologies refused Hugging Face’s request to analyze the attack because of their safety guardrails, the company turned to a Chinese AI model to defend against the onslaught.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 29, 2026

Meta is facing a legal onslaught over accusations that its products are addictive and cause harm to young people.

From Barron's Jul. 22, 2026

“There’s been this kind of onslaught from the Pentagon that all comes in the context of the two-plus decades of the war on terror.”

From Salon Jul. 6, 2026

But when Cortes’s next onslaught came, the Aztecs were no longer naive and fought street by street with the utmost tenacity.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

In October, the South American country unveiled its first drone battalion to counterattack and defend against drone onslaughts.

From Barron's Jan. 29, 2026

One drone he pilots can throw up an effective cloak of invisibility against electronic onslaughts, but others he has trained on don’t hold up well in that domain, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 13, 2025

Hundreds of Ukrainian forces withdrew to Avdiivka’s coke plant after repeated Russian onslaughts last fall.

From Seattle Times Mar. 10, 2024

And in this form, it looks unlikely that Rockets' bowlers will be the only ones on the receiving end of their onslaughts over the next month.

From BBC Aug. 1, 2023

Had the bolas come in massed, coordinated onslaughts instead of being wielded by individual soldiers as they thought opportune, Pizarro might well have met his match.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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