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

Strikes continued to pummel targets in Iran on Sunday, at times stirring up the already emotional crowds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 1, 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

Modest stock declines tend to make investors—and many pundits—fret that a catastrophic decline is about to pummel the market.

From Barron's ● Nov. 12, 2025

Regan walked with a stiffness that made it obvious that it was taking every ounce of her self-control not to pummel Callaway with more questions.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

"So matter just pummels directly onto the surface, at very high speeds, like an asteroid hitting the Moon."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026

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

The waterfall pummels the water around us, and a lifeguard ushers us to the hill.

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

Earlier this year, a Nor'easter that pummeled the northeast disrupted hundreds of flights and left thousands of homes and businesses without power.

From Barron's ● Sep. 25, 2026

Even as their shares got pummeled, software companies have been showing their financial strength.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 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

Liza was a good plain cook, and her house—it was always her house—was brushed and pummeled and washed.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

Ukraine's energy network, already pummelled by Russian attacks over more than four years of war, was buckling under the high temperatures on Monday.

From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 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

Also on the main card, rising Frenchman Benoit Saint Denis pummelled New Zealand's Dan Hooker with a second round technical knockout in the lightweight.

From Barron's ● Feb. 1, 2026

Meanwhile, parts of Western Australia were pummelled by Tropical Cyclone Luana over the weekend.

From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2026

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

High fuel prices are pummeling the freight sector.

From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026

San Antonio had built its mammoth lead with Wembanyama pummeling the Knicks inside and freeing up his teammates for wide-open looks from the perimeter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026

On this night, the mercenaries prevailed, in a pummeling so relentless and a silencing so rapid that a three-peat appeared all but inevitable: Dodgers 14, Blue Jays 2.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 2026

Its trunk was bent almost double, and its gnarled boughs were pummeling every inch of the car it could reach.

From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling

Two-time defending champion Aryna Sabalenka earned one of the quickest Grand Slam wins of her career with a 53-minute pummelling of US Open debutant Polina Iatcenko in the second round.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

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 would have given anything—life itself—to lift the weight off her, so tender had his conscience become under the pummelling of fate, so big his heart for those to whom he owed love and shelter.

From The Honour of the Clintons by Archibald Marshall