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barrage

[buh-rahzh, bar-ahzh, bahr-ij] / bəˈrɑʒ, ˈbær ɑʒ, ˈbɑr ɪdʒ /




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She said she received a barrage of requests from women who said, “Why don’t you like the Shore?”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Let’s tackle the first, which is how to stop the barrage of bizarre excuses.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026

Speaker Johnson, who on Monday faced a barrage of questions about AI from reporters in the halls of Congress, gave no sign he intended to move quickly this week.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

A barrage of newly concocted action sequences in the second half makes the pacing so off-balance that the film feels like a heron trying to fly with one blinged-out wing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

As the barrage of noise gets nearer, there is a sudden wild whirring over their heads.

From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks

WESTLAKE: The scoreboard operator will deserve extra pay trying to keep up with Warriors’ scoring barrages.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026

In the U.A.E., barrages of drone and missile attacks from Iran unsettled the country’s finances.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026

The IDF said two barrages of missiles were detected and intercepted.

From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026

On Saturday night, AFP journalists witnessed long-range drones being launched toward Russia, in what turned out to be one of the largest barrages of the conflict.

From Barron's ● May 17, 2026

The Allies, after much trial and error, learned to use their tanks effectively in coordination with artillery barrages, infantry assaults, and—toward the end of the war—attacks by low-flying aircraft.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman

At an annual meeting of financial-aid administrators hosted by the Education Department’s Office of Federal Student Aid earlier this year, people who work in college financial aid barraged government officials with questions about the change.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 2026

Stars like Connor McDavid, Nathan MacKinnon and teenage wonder Macklin Celebrini repeatedly barraged the zone, to no avail.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 22, 2026

United were barraged by jeers from furious fans following the latest miserable result in another troubled season.

From Barron's ● Jan. 11, 2026

He said it was unfair that the company’s workers had been barraged with threats, even as they grieved the loss of a colleague.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2024

As our confusion turned to shock and anger, we barraged the little man with questions.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs

Aymann Ismail knew something was up when his Egyptian mom started barraging him with Piers Morgan clips.

From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2023

Those complaints in 2018 and 2020 about Jackson barraging students with social media and text messages, first reported by The Seattle Times, posed no obstacle to Jackson staying on the job.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 16, 2023

So they are barraging customers with discounts, hoping to entice them to buy before an economic slowdown causes a change in behavior once more.

From New York Times ● Nov. 27, 2022

Hotels and travel brands also struggle to vet the deluge of travel influencers barraging them with requests for all-expenses-paid vacations in exchange for social media posts.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 13, 2022

Seven and Thorn did as she said, surrounding the Nightbeast as best they could and barraging it with combat spells as fast as they could go.

From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega




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