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pummel

[puhm-uhl] / ˈpʌm əl /


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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 Knicks fans need me to stand in a public square and pummel me with rotten vegetables, please name the square and vegetable.

From The Wall Street Journal May 11, 2026

Inter, the three-time European champions who are currently 10 points clear at the top of Serie A, were expected to pummel their visitors in an attempt to turn the tie around.

From Barron's Feb. 24, 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

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

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

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

After all, it is rare that a European pummels his European birthplace, though it has happened.

From Washington Post Dec. 7, 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

Since June, a succession of heat waves have pummeled the continent, straining its infrastructure and drying out swaths of territory.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

Our expectations of normalcy were pummeled into submission long ago.

From Salon Jun. 17, 2026

But the production crisis, which has rocked Hollywood and pummeled its workforce, has reached a critical juncture.

From Los Angeles Times May 17, 2026

They’ve already been pummeled by years of high inflation.

From MarketWatch May 2, 2026

I'm even more tired and hungry than when I got off the train, and I’ve no desire to get pummeled like poor Jackson.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland

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

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

With baseline power anchoring her game, the 27-year-old Belarusian has pummelled opponents on the way to nine WTA titles and created a clear gap at the top of the world rankings.

From BBC Jan. 31, 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

In her first picture, she stood in a one-piece on a boulder, smiling, a waterfall pummeling behind her.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 20, 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

A San Diego man was killed Wednesday morning after a tree fell on him, the third death linked to the storm pummeling Southern California over the holiday, the San Diego Police Department confirmed.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 25, 2025

My heart pounded like drops of rain pummeling down upon the dry earth.

From "The Ugly One" by Leanne Statland Ellis

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

They exorcised those ghosts, pummelling away with gainline dominance and ambition out the back and out wide.

From BBC Mar. 15, 2025

Instead, he opted to get the game done in a hurry – pummelling the ball both sides of the wicket as he hit a remarkable 20 fours and five sixes in a career-best ODI knock.

From BBC Sep. 19, 2024

Although the conche is considered to have revolutionized the chocolate industry, it will remain to the uninitiated a curious sight to see a room full of machines engaged in pummelling chocolate day and night.

From Cocoa and Chocolate Their History from Plantation to Consumer by Knapp, Arthur William




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