pummel
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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
Tornadoes, thunderstorms and blizzard conditions are forecast to pummel parts of the eastern US.
From BBC ● Mar. 16, 2026
The fast-developing storm is threatening to pummel the US East Coast with a foot or more of snow beginning Sunday, just weeks after the region recovered from another devastating weather system.
From Barron's ● Feb. 22, 2026
Gusts of air and seawater pummel the rocky shore.
From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day
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
The AT pummels hikers with incredibly steep climbs and descents, and even flat sections require near-constant decision-making to navigate an endless gantlet of rocks and roots slippery from frequent rain.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2021
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
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
Four years after hosting the tournament, they watched their team get pummeled, conceding 10 goals in three games.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
Our expectations of normalcy were pummeled into submission long ago.
From Salon ● Jun. 17, 2026
“Hard to believe, isn’t it? I recall you pummeled me once when I stole Polly’s doll.”
From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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
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
Haiti and other parts of the Caribbean were also destroyed when the Category 5 storm pummelled through the region.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2025
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
He stepped down as chief executive in 2005 and left the board in 2015, but remains Lululemon’s largest individual investor and has been publicly pummeling the company from the sidelines.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
High fuel prices are pummeling the freight sector.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
“They’re pummeling us every day,” said a woman pensioner sitting among her friends on benches in a leafy courtyard of a Soviet-era apartment block.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 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
And other sounds came to them on the pummeling wind—the roaring beat of an engine, the creak and howl of great masses of wood being crushed together, human cries.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
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
The astonished Jackall closes with the Donkey, and they roll over and over in the mud, pummelling one another.
From Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices by Charles Dickens
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