pummeled
Example Sentences
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The country's third-largest city was pummeled by a 7.4 magnitude earthquake on Monday, along with swaths of Colombia's coffee region and western coast.
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
Foreign competition and lower-cost steel producers pummeled Gary in the 1970s and 1980s, costing thousands of steelworkers their jobs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 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
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
The first principle of wrestling is to hang on to your opponent come what may, so I clung to Nick's breeches like a leech, though he kicked madly and pummeled my back with his fists.
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
