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onslaught

[on-slawt, awn-] / ˈɒnˌslɔt, ˈɔn- /


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Five of his relatives - including his brother - were caught in the water's onslaught and are still missing.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

Despite facing notable challenges and coming of age in a culture infected by “big woe,” or an onslaught of despairing information, Moore believes there is still reason for young people to be optimistic.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026

Life was an onslaught of bright lights, loud noises, intolerable textures and tastes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

"It is wrong that the journalists who did their job responsibly are now being subjected to an onslaught of abuse."

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 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

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

"This funding is critical to stopping those onslaughts, hardening Ukraine’s cyber defences and increasing the country’s ability to detect and disable the malware targeted at them."

From Reuters ● Jun. 18, 2023

The grease on the glass that covered the photograph showed the frequency of these affectionate onslaughts.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole




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