bombard
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Then Cliffe would stand near campus landmarks—the sundial at Columbia University, or the Pit at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill—and students would bombard him with questions: What is the purpose of life?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
"These rare events, triggered by large, well-positioned collisions in the main asteroid belt, bombard all inner solar system worlds," Bottke said.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 18, 2026
‘I’ve plenty of time on my hands’: Advisers bombard me with offers of free steak dinners.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 8, 2026
Deming goes old school to distort Reilly’s focus and bombard him with harsh spotlights.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026
The media begins to bombard him with questions, but he ducks out without answering a single one.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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The university of the future will succeed if it teaches students how to think and talk about the information that bombards them daily.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
Without this invisible barrier, Earth would be exposed to the same constant stream of charged particles that bombards other planets in our solar system, such as Mars, making life there far more difficult.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2025
Schools pile on homework, extracurricular activities consume evenings, and social media bombards us with comparisons to seemingly perfect families.
From Salon ● Sep. 17, 2024
The Sun bombards Earth with a tremendous amount of energy, and the vast majority of it is reflected or quickly re-emitted as infrared heat.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 4, 2024
Imam Malik looks helpless as our class bombards him with questions.
From "Amina's Voice" by Hena Khan
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An independent study revealed that these bots bombarded a U.N. data hub with more than 16,000 requests, eventually utilizing unauthorized techniques to circumvent security filters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
They then bombarded the gas mixture with protons to imitate the stream of energetic particles generated by solar superflares.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 2, 2026
They also bombarded the CFPB’s website with complaints, which included accounts of how Bilt’s AI support system gave information that was “completely wrong” and “demonstrably … false.”
From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2026
Newly appointed Michelle Welsh, Labour MP for Sherwood Forest, has written to the owner of Facebook and Instagram, urging them to better protect users from being bombarded with unwanted ads.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026
Books bombarded his shoulders, his arms, his upturned face A book alighted, almost obediently, like a white pigeon, in his hands, wings fluttering.
From "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury
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But we also have things like Netflix Playground bombarding us.
From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2026
To win some room to push back with Trump in private, Rutte began bombarding him with public support and praise.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
Ecuador, which finished second in the South American World Cup qualifiers, put up a strong fight, bombarding the Mexican team with crosses, albeit without much organization.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
As diplomats wrangle for a breakthrough in what has been Europe's deadliest conflict since World War II, Russia has continued to press forward with its assault, bombarding Ukraine daily.
From Barron's ● Jan. 9, 2026
I began bombarding the boy with questions concerning pugilism: it seemed so different from the way we fought in the street—it was cleaner.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
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