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[bom-bahrd, buhm-, bom-bahrd] / bɒmˈbɑrd, bəm-, ˈbɒm bɑrd /


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From the company’s Shanghai studios, crews broadcast live on the apps for 12 hours a day, while shoppers bombard them with comments and questions in a chat that dominates part of the screen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

Related: ‘I’ve plenty of time on my hands’: Advisers bombard me with offers of free steak dinners.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026

"These rare events, triggered by large, well-positioned collisions in the main asteroid belt, bombard all inner solar system worlds," Bottke said.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 18, 2026

Deming goes old school to distort Reilly’s focus and bombard him with harsh spotlights.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026

They bombard the whole body with bad crap, hoping it will knock out the disease, and leave the rest alive.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman

The university of the future will succeed if it teaches students how to think and talk about the information that bombards them daily.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

Without this invisible barrier, Earth would be exposed to the same constant stream of charged particles that bombards other planets in our solar system, such as Mars, making life there far more difficult.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2025

Schools pile on homework, extracurricular activities consume evenings, and social media bombards us with comparisons to seemingly perfect families.

From Salon ● Sep. 17, 2024

He also summoned European gunsmiths, the most important of whom was the Hungarian named Urban, to craft bombards, an early form of cannon.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

Imam Malik looks helpless as our class bombards him with questions.

From "Amina's Voice" by Hena Khan

Adding to the phone-calls-may-be-disruptive argument, Hall said in today’s digital-heavy world, people are constantly being bombarded by notifications on their phones.

From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2026

An independent study revealed that these bots bombarded a U.N. data hub with more than 16,000 requests, eventually utilizing unauthorized techniques to circumvent security filters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

After being de-selected by Labour in 2022, he bombarded Banks with more than 100 offensive cards and letters until his fingerprints were found on one in summer 2025.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

They then bombarded the gas mixture with protons to imitate the stream of energetic particles generated by solar superflares.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 2, 2026

Over and over again, Gates was bombarded by reporters with versions of the question, “Mr. Gates, these Internet stocks, they’re a bubble, right? Surely they’re a bubble. They must be a bubble?”

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman

But we also have things like Netflix Playground bombarding us.

From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2026

To win some room to push back with Trump in private, Rutte began bombarding him with public support and praise.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026

As diplomats wrangle for a breakthrough in what has been Europe's deadliest conflict since World War II, Russia has continued to press forward with its assault, bombarding Ukraine daily.

From Barron's ● Jan. 9, 2026

He texted the family to say "they are bombarding the party".

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2025

That machine, now turning out radioisotopes and bombarding tumors with neutrons in the Crocker Lab, was the most exquisitely engineered cyclotron in the world, thanks to Brobeck’s painstaking oversight.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik


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