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 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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