pummel

The film’s brilliance comes from Wain and Marino knowing how to pummel the viewer with jokes while measuring each punchline’s individual weight.

From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026

If oil prices go significantly higher, that could pummel spending and employment, prompting the Fed to cut rates to prevent a recession.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 29, 2026

This week, investors became very worried that rapidly-advancing AI capabilities offered by companies like Anthropic are going to pummel any company with services that include enterprise software.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 4, 2026

Modest stock declines tend to make investors—and many pundits—fret that a catastrophic decline is about to pummel the market.

From Barron's ● Nov. 12, 2025

Gusts of air and seawater pummel the rocky shore.

From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day

And severe weather pummels both the Northeast and West Coast.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 21, 2023

Lethal landslides are common in the area when heavy monsoon rain pummels Myanmar between May and October.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2023

The sheer force of their thousand-pound bodies pummels the dirt track's hazardous slings — but only after first funneling through the narrow cabling of their spindly forelimb ligaments.

From Salon ● Jun. 10, 2023

One such step involves loading one ball at a time into a piston-powered machine, which pummels it for five minutes in an up-and-down motion designed to mimic a waist-high power dribble.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 19, 2021

Sonia pummels the water with her arms and pushes it behind her with her legs.

From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins

The year after that, heavy rains pummeled the burn scar, burying buildings and vehicles under mud and debris.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

Earlier this year, a Nor'easter that pummeled the northeast disrupted hundreds of flights and left thousands of homes and businesses without power.

From Barron's ● Sep. 25, 2026

Even as their shares got pummeled, companies like Salesforce and Workday have been showing financial strength.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

Leveraged ETFs tied to chipmaker SK Hynix were pummeled Tuesday, amid a punishing selloff in semiconductor stocks this month as whiplash around the powerful artificial-intelligence trade continues.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026

She unleashed a miniature onslaught, and it took everything I had to shield myself as her tiny fists and feet pummeled me.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia

At least four people have died and five others are wounded in eastern Japan as record rainfall pummelled the Chiba prefecture near the capital Tokyo.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

Ukraine's energy network, already pummelled by Russian attacks over more than four years of war, was buckling under the high temperatures on Monday.

From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026

The Kospi, which was pummelled almost 19 percent on Tuesday and Wednesday before bouncing more than nine percent Thursday, shed 1.5 percent.

From Barron's ● Mar. 6, 2026

The group pummelled the bot with more than 1,000 prompts to bypass the safeguards and convince Claude they were allowed to test the system for vulnerabilities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2026

I’d looked at Kat’s little finger, and imagined Dad going around it, in miniature, stretched and pummelled into an odd-looking, living ring.

From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd

Experts stress that the key is to start preparing before storms begin pummeling the region.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

“They’re pummeling us every day,” said a woman pensioner sitting among her friends on benches in a leafy courtyard of a Soviet-era apartment block.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

San Antonio had built its mammoth lead with Wembanyama pummeling the Knicks inside and freeing up his teammates for wide-open looks from the perimeter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026

In her first picture, she stood in a one-piece on a boulder, smiling, a waterfall pummeling behind her.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2026

I stopped pummeling the small punching bag Dad had installed in my room and loosened the straps on my boxing gloves with my teeth.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia

The heatwaves pummelling Europe this summer will have costly impacts on industries ranging from agriculture to tourism -- but that hasn't stopped stock markets from hitting all-time highs.

From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026

The study only looked at data up to 2024, however Emerton said the heatwaves already pummelling Europe this year suggest the trend has been continuing.

From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026

Denmark needed one goal to guarantee automatic qualification and send Scotland to the purgatory of the play-offs - and they were pummelling Belarus in pursuit of it.

From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2026

“Artificial Angels” captures the pummelling wrongness of internet-assisted living in 2025.

From Salon ● Nov. 7, 2025

And again she began her pummelling with redoubled energy.

From Jane Lends A Hand by Shirley Watkins