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fusillade

[fyoo-suh-leyd, -lahd, -zuh-] / ˈfyu səˌleɪd, -ˌlɑd, -zə- /
NOUN
rapid outburst
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Chinese officials directed a rhetorical fusillade at Ms. Takaichi, and have ratcheted up economic pressure by discouraging Chinese tourism to Japan and restricting rare-earth mineral exports.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026

A fusillade of calcium batteries and white plastic bags drifted above the landscape along with birds and the final image was a dove soaring above the desolation.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 26, 2023

After a few minutes, despite their fears of another fusillade, they said, they ran to assist the victim in the lot.

From Washington Post • Jan. 5, 2023

After navigating that first boundary, the Voyager probes entered the heliosheath, the region where the diminished solar wind continues to wither under a fusillade of gas and dust as the Solar System plows through space.

From Science Magazine • Jul. 27, 2022

I turned around so I could face him and was met with a fusillade of saliva as he continued his tirade.

From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore




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