bombed
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Surviving crews say they were bombed, and detained, by U.S. forces.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
But some of the storied studio's more recent titles, like the alien adventure Elio and Toy Story spin-off Lightyear, have bombed at the box office.
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026
All we see is when a boat is bombed or when someone’s promotion is stopped.
From Slate ● Jun. 17, 2026
The imbroglio has numerous echoes of Kushner’s experience late last year in Serbia, where he had hoped to build a Trump-branded hotel on a Belgrade site once bombed by North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
But the whole kitchen crew was too excited and upset to notice: Japanese planes had just bombed a place called Pearl Harbor.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
