fusillade
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Will tech companies’ fusillade of cuddly mascots with cute names ease consumers’ AI anxiety?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
And to say its fusillade of jokes is hit-and-miss would also be a charitable take.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2026
The fusillade reflected Russia’s renewed focus on striking Ukrainian energy facilities.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 4, 2024
This fusillade of explosions in quick succession produces a powerful galactic wind blowing gas out of the galaxy.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 8, 2024
The phrase volley of abuse, for example, uses the image of a fusillade of bullets to describe an outpouring of anger.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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We saw and fusilladed the Pom-poms through this smoke at 10,000 yards with the 4.7's, and at 5 p.m. we had the whole ground in our possession.
From With the Naval Brigade in Natal (1899-1900) Journal of Active Service by C. R. N. (Charles Richard Newdigate) Burne
In the evening and night the latter showed special activity, star rockets and other fireworks being used to illumine the opposing positions, which were heavily fusilladed.
From World's War Events, Vol. I by Francis J. (Francis Joseph) Reynolds
Accordingly alongside of these bonfires of Church balustrades, and sounds of fusillading and noyading, there rise quite another sort of fires and sounds: Smithy-fires and Proof-volleys for the manufacture of arms.
From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle
I was so appalled by their stories and by the incessant cannonading and fusillading that one evening I attempted to go down into a cellar and stay there.
From The Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun by Marie Louise Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun
Vocabulary lists containing fusillade
"The Monkey's Paw" by W. W. Jacobs
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National Spelling Bee '14: Prelims Round 2
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