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

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

Instead, Ukrainians are showing the resilience and make-do attitude that have frustrated Moscow’s efforts to pummel them into submission.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 26, 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

Gusts of air and seawater pummel the rocky shore.

From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day

Santi, meanwhile, knows he’s good; when he pummels a ball, it sounds like a sonic boom.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2025

And severe weather pummels both the Northeast and West Coast.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 21, 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

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

From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins

Rising interest rates pummeled bonds as stocks continued to chug along and favorable rule-making buoyed cryptocurrencies.

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026

Nicaraguan leader Daniel Ortega was voted out in 1990 after a decade of sanctions that pummeled the economy, though he later returned to power and remains in charge today.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 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

He had pulled off his helmet and his neck roll and sat on the bench exhausted and almost stunned, his eyes puffy and nearly closed, as if someone had pummeled him in a fight.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger

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

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’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

On a vast beach in Morocco last year, waves were pummeling one of humanity’s oldest plot devices.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

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

After 20 minutes of warm, gentle pummeling, I was completely relaxed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 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

We’re surging down 1-5 with our car windows cracked, wind pummeling through the open spaces.

From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day

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

"Well, not you, perhaps—not yet a bit, seeing you are only a little tomboy sort of thing——" "Thing! how dare you!" cried Tommy, pummelling her uncle's leg.

From The Girl Crusoes A Story of the South Seas by Mrs. Herbert Strang