pummeled
Example Sentences
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In 2023, Tropical Storm Hilary pummeled the diner’s old roof.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 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
Foreign competition and lower-cost steel producers pummeled Gary in the 1970s and 1980s, costing thousands of steelworkers their jobs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 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
He’d never gotten into a fight at school or pummeled anyone.
From "Time Bomb" by Joelle Charbonneau
