pummeled
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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
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
Since June, a succession of heat waves have pummeled the continent, straining its infrastructure and drying out swaths of territory.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
In an industry that hasn’t seen traffic come back since COVID-19 and was further pummeled by the Palisades fire last year, it was a welcome sight for Lisa Powers, the restaurant’s operations manager.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
It must have been thoroughly pummeled throughout its history by falling boulders.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
