onslaught
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The company identified the onslaught and tried to defend its system using different AI.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
Meta is facing a legal onslaught over accusations that its products are addictive and cause harm to young people.
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
The agency still has its eyes on Salmonella and a form of E. coli, but due to an onslaught of funding cuts and staffing shortages, it has had to shift priorities.
From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2026
Her daughter convinced her to go after an onslaught in May shook their building.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
Fleming and Smith withstood the onslaught in good style, particularly Fleming, who, wearing a bold red tie and an abiding smile, endured Shultz with gentlemanly resignation.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
In October, the South American country unveiled its first drone battalion to counterattack and defend against drone onslaughts.
From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026
One drone he pilots can throw up an effective cloak of invisibility against electronic onslaughts, but others he has trained on don’t hold up well in that domain, he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 13, 2025
Hundreds of Ukrainian forces withdrew to Avdiivka’s coke plant after repeated Russian onslaughts last fall.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 10, 2024
And in this form, it looks unlikely that Rockets' bowlers will be the only ones on the receiving end of their onslaughts over the next month.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2023
Normally he was a courageous dog, but he had never before encountered anything like these vicious, silent onslaughts.
From "The Incredible Journey" by Sheila Burnford
Vocabulary lists containing onslaught
Words from "The Avengers"
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, "A Date That Will Live In Infamy" (1941)
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"The Diary of Anne Frank," Vocabulary from the drama
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