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

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

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

For all that she wanted to pummel Kaz, she couldn’t help being a bit grateful, too.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

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

I assume she’s talking to me, but when she gets to us, she pummels right into Rhiannon.

From "Every Day" by David Levithan

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

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

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

I would have pummeled them in chess, too, but was hauled into the dean’s office.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

At least four people have died and five others are wounded in eastern Japan as record rainfall pummelled the Chiba prefecture near the capital Tokyo.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

Senator Jose "Jinggoy" Estrada's detention came nearly a year after revelations over massive corruption in flood control projects -- a matter with serious consequences in a country pummelled every year by major typhoons.

From Barron's ● Jun. 1, 2026

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

I felt as if I were being pummelled by a great fist.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel

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

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

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

“Okay, okay. Just wondered if you’d seen the large iron monster heading your way. Looks like the ones you’re pummeling now, only ten times bigger? Maybe gives the orders?”

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia

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

In the South, at any rate, we bear the scars and the mourning of those days still, but nobody would be thanked for pummelling us with patriotism.

From Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View by Price Collier