pummelled
Example Sentences
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Senator Jose "Jinggoy" Estrada's detention came nearly a year after revelations over massive corruption in flood control projects -- a matter with serious consequences in a country pummelled every year by major typhoons.
From Barron's ● Jun. 1, 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
Unusually intense monsoon rains pummelled parts of South and Southeast Asia in November and December, triggering landslides and floods from Indonesia's rainforests to highland plantations in Sri Lanka.
From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026
Haiti and other parts of the Caribbean were also destroyed when the Category 5 storm pummelled through the region.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2025
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
