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

A war that seemed primed to pummel emerging economies reliant on Middle East imports hasn’t done the same to their stock markets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026

Tornadoes, thunderstorms and blizzard conditions are forecast to pummel parts of the eastern US.

From BBC ● Mar. 16, 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

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

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

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

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

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

From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026

The company—once synonymous with Las Vegas Strip decadence—has been pummeled by a downturn in the city’s fortunes and disruption from online gambling.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 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

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

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

From BBC ● Jan. 25, 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’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

With intense heat pummeling many parts of the world this summer, I tracked down Ed Ballard, who covers climate change and the energy transition, shvitzing in the U.K.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 2026

After a shock reverse against the lowly Indiana Pacers on Tuesday, the Knicks got back into their stride with a lopsided pummeling of the Sixers.

From Barron's ● Feb. 12, 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

We bombarded him with questions, pummeling him about not keeping his word.

From "Tasting the Sky" by Ibtisam Barakat

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

Painful enough without knowing the early morning alarm call will have come with the jet-lag feeling of a pummelling and late-night home journey from Leicester.

From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2024

The water galloped down in a snowy cataract of foam, as we topped off our swim with the heavy "shower-bath" that was like a massage in its pummelling.

From Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative by Kemp, Harry