bombard

Example Sentences

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The controversy is about an arcane technical maneuver in which high-speed traders bombard Frankfurt-based Eurex with useless data.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 16, 2025

"We must resist the temptation to think that we can somehow shoot or bombard our way into a solution in the face of such a complex situation," he said.

From BBC • Feb. 8, 2025

Most organs and tissues now seem to bombard each other with a huge variety of molecular messages.

From Science Magazine • May 22, 2024

Headlines bombard us with claims about cancer, chronic illness, the dangers of our food, “toxins.”

From Slate • Mar. 27, 2024

If we bombard protons at high energies with other elementary particles—other protons, say—we begin to glimpse more fundamental units hiding inside the proton.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan