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From there, Stefan Ortega saved superbly, only for Ola Aina’s clearance to cannon off Mac Allister and into an empty net, before it was ruled out for handball following a VAR check.
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Gregg Evans, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2026
The junior didn’t pitch from Feb. 23 to April 18 with a shoulder injury, yet triumphed to cannon a 19-strikeout no-hitter on June 16 in a 3-0 win against Murray State.
—Erick Taylor, Arkansas Online, 31 Dec. 2025
His 79th-minute header from Andy Robertson’s free kick beat goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma but cannoned off the upright and across the face of the goal with no Liverpool player able to follow up, and the Premier League leaders ended up losing the last-16 tie in a penalty shootout.
—Andy Jones, The Athletic, 13 Mar. 2025
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Gregg Evans, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2026
The junior didn’t pitch from Feb. 23 to April 18 with a shoulder injury, yet triumphed to cannon a 19-strikeout no-hitter on June 16 in a 3-0 win against Murray State.
—Erick Taylor, Arkansas Online, 31 Dec. 2025
His 79th-minute header from Andy Robertson’s free kick beat goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma but cannoned off the upright and across the face of the goal with no Liverpool player able to follow up, and the Premier League leaders ended up losing the last-16 tie in a penalty shootout.
—Andy Jones, The Athletic, 13 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cannon
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April is financial literacy month, which means consumers will be barraged with articles and programs designed to promote personal finance education.—
Leah Locke,
Boston Herald,
20 Apr. 2026
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Each character has totally justified and totally unjustified reasons for resenting one another, and the sensation of absorbing those contrasting opinions is like being in a stuck bumper car, barraged and battered from all sides.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
16 Apr. 2026
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But Americans chose to cannonade each other with pamphlets, not artillery.—
Joseph Tartakovsky,
WSJ,
2 July 2018
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And more recently, Cornyn was among many Republicans reluctant to nuke the Senate’s 60-vote filibuster threshold to pass the Save America Act to impose nationwide voter ID laws.—
Elizabeth Robinson,
NBC news,
27 May 2026
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One of them nukes a ton of Gmail functionality, and neither is explained very well.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
30 Apr. 2026
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To celebrate, the president wants to offer free admissions that day to the country’s national parks, a self-serving gesture, no doubt, but one that is no surprise for a man who spent much of his adult life plastering his name on the sides of buildings, airplanes and casino hotels.—
Leonard Greene,
Mercury News,
27 Dec. 2025
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In one scene, Gracie Abrams texts Taylor a picture of the singer plastered on the side of a hotel in Indianapolis.—
Maya Georgi,
Rolling Stone,
23 Dec. 2025
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Teammates bombarded the two that scored with big celebrations each time.—
Tom Mulherin,
Boston Herald,
4 June 2026
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Today, when we are bombarded with news, alerts, and the constant intrusion of digital devices into every facet of our lives, that sentiment seems truer than ever.—
Robb Report Studio,
Robb Report,
3 June 2026
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In the fifth, the Royals chased him from the game and blitzed right-handed reliever Andrew Morris.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
7 June 2026
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Before requesting a trade, Mabrey openly opined to reporters that she couldn’t be expected to carry the team’s entire 3-point burden on her shoulders, noting that the imbalance allowed other teams to blitz her at the point of attack and over the top of screens to take away her best angles.—
Julia Poe,
Chicago Tribune,
2 June 2026
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The campus is eerily silent, even as Israel attacks Lebanon and the United States bombs Iran.—
Jonathan Zimmerman,
Chicago Tribune,
9 June 2026
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As the fire between Israel and Hezbollah intensified and Israel threatened to bomb Hezbollah targets in Beirut earlier this month, Iran vowed to suspend negotiations with the US if the Lebanese capital was struck.—
Jeremy Diamond,
CNN Money,
9 June 2026
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“Cannon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cannon. Accessed 11 Jun. 2026.
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