pummel

The film’s brilliance comes from Wain and Marino knowing how to pummel the viewer with jokes while measuring each punchline’s individual weight.

From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026

If oil prices go significantly higher, that could pummel spending and employment, prompting the Fed to cut rates to prevent a recession.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 29, 2026

This week, investors became very worried that rapidly-advancing AI capabilities offered by companies like Anthropic are going to pummel any company with services that include enterprise software.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 4, 2026

An unusually brutal winter storm is set to pummel more than 160 million Americans from Friday, as a stretched "polar vortex" sends a devastating blast of Arctic air, bringing heavy snows and freezing rains.

From Barron's ● Jan. 22, 2026

Shame and guilt pummel me, but my anger is real, too.

From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed

Now they say they have nowhere to hide from intense flooding as rainfall exacerbated by the weather phenomenon El Nino pummels large parts of Somalia.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 2023

Lethal landslides are common in the area when heavy monsoon rain pummels Myanmar between May and October.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2023

The sheer force of their thousand-pound bodies pummels the dirt track's hazardous slings — but only after first funneling through the narrow cabling of their spindly forelimb ligaments.

From Salon ● Jun. 10, 2023

As “Seinfeld’s” library cop, Hall verbally pummels Jerry with his rat-a-tat delivery while brandishing his index finger like a loaded Glock, the Inspector Javert of the stacks.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 14, 2022

Sonia pummels the water with her arms and pushes it behind her with her legs.

From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins

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

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

That comes in the wake of yet another record-breaking heat wave that has pummeled the Northern Hemisphere.

From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026

I feel like the bird I looked after as a kid, the one pummeled by the rain.

From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera

The Kospi, which was pummelled almost 19 percent on Tuesday and Wednesday before bouncing more than nine percent Thursday, shed 1.5 percent.

From Barron's ● Mar. 6, 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

The landslides come after heavy rain pummelled parts of the North Island for days.

From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2026

Fourth seed Amanda Anisimova pummelled doubles specialist Katerina Siniakova into submission on Thursday in a "crazy" Australian Open second-round clash.

From Barron's ● Jan. 22, 2026

I felt as if I were being pummelled by a great fist.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel

At a Dr. Jack seminar held in a furniture store, Cheadle’s unrecognizable cameo competes with kids jumping on a couch and a spasmodic massage chair pummeling Corvette’s face.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026

It was powder-blue pummeling, eight-clap crushing, Westwood wonderful.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 2026

Miami is so set on pummeling the quarterback, in fact, that it eve disrupts their practice routines.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 7, 2026

After pummeling Jamaica, Melissa was forecast to head north and cross over eastern Cuba on Tuesday night, while continuing to bring rain and heavy winds to Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2025

He walks to the spot the scanner indicates and begins pummeling its surface with his drill.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

The heatwaves pummelling Europe this summer will have costly impacts on industries ranging from agriculture to tourism -- but that hasn't stopped stock markets from hitting all-time highs.

From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026

The study only looked at data up to 2024, however Emerton said the heatwaves already pummelling Europe this year suggest the trend has been continuing.

From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026

“Artificial Angels” captures the pummelling wrongness of internet-assisted living in 2025.

From Salon ● Nov. 7, 2025

He did not score a run between deep square leg and backward point during his 54 balls, instead pummelling the straight boundaries.

From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2025

Does Broughton, after pummelling and beating Slack, lift up a black eye to Jove and thank him for the victory?

From The Virginians by William Makepeace Thackeray