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noun

bə-ˈräzh How to pronounce barrage (audio)
Definition of barragenext
as in flurry
a rapid or overwhelming outpouring of many things at once the teacher's rapid-fire barrage of homework assignments went by too fast for me to write them all down

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barrage

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verb

bə-ˈräzh How to pronounce barrage (audio)
as in to flood
to attack with a rapid or overwhelming outpouring of many things at once the star athlete was barraged with requests for an autograph

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Recent Examples of barrage
Noun
Weather concerns The plane went down amid a barrage of severe thunderstorms that raged across South Florida Sunday morning and into the afternoon. — David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 2 Nov. 2026 Almost from the moment the couples sit down, Wendy goes on the offensive, directing a barrage of questions toward Tia and Robert about the state of their relationship. — Shamira Ibrahim, Vulture, 2 Nov. 2026
Verb
Checchi, in particular, barraged voters with an unrelenting flood of ads. — Mark Z. Barabak, Mercury News, 28 Mar. 2026 Residents of Syracuse, New York — America’s snowiest city — once barraged a service hotline with street neglect complaints during blizzards, even if plows had passed two hours earlier but the work was hidden by fresh snow. — Jeff McMurray, Fortune, 3 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for barrage
Recent Examples of Synonyms for barrage
  1. flurry
  2. flood
  3. bombardment
  4. bombard
  5. volley
  6. bomb
  7. hail
  8. question
Noun
  • Beijing has hosted a flurry of global leaders this year, while major economies have struggled to slow a surge of imports from China.
    — Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 5 Nov. 2026
  • Instead, the late-breaking 9th Circuit decisions spurred a flurry of confusion and conjecture just hours before polls were set to open in the country’s most populous state.
    — Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2026
Definition of flurry
Verb
  • The post was quickly removed after a wave of criticism flooded her comment section.
    — Christina Dugan Ramirez, FOXNews.com, 1 Nov. 2026
  • The era of agentic AI has arrived, but there is uncertainty about what the landscape will look like when virtual storefronts become flooded with AI agents or when a business tries to block them.
    — Kevin Williams, CNBC, 1 Nov. 2026
Definition of flood
Noun
  • It is named after Beirut's southern suburbs, a Hezbollah stronghold that Israel largely decimated in heavy bombardment in 2006.
    — Ruth Sherlock, NPR, 6 Nov. 2026
  • The bombardment heats the fuel toward the extreme temperatures required for commercial fusion.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 4 Nov. 2026
Definition of bombardment
Verb
  • There’s so much competition, and consumers are bombarded with things.
    — Amy Francombe, Vogue, 3 Nov. 2026
  • Its twenty-two screens, displayed at various angles, bombarded audiences with montages of text, numbers, and images, like a rapid scroll through Instagram Reels.
    — Alec Mapes-Frances, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2026
Definition of bombard
Noun
  • The two sides fired white, smoky volleys, their guns making a black-powder hiss-bang.
    — Ian Frazier, New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2026
  • James Bree scored a superb volley to give the visitors a two-goal lead in the 11th minute.
    — Roshane Thomas, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2026
Definition of volley
Verb
  • Efforts to rescue people Monday evening were hindered as Russian drones launched additional attacks in the area that had been bombed, according to Mykhailo Semikin, a military official in Zaporizhzhia.
    — Derek Gatopoulos, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2026
  • The technology has already been used to bomb elementary school students, scam seniors, and drive dozens of vulnerable users to suicide.
    — Joe Wilkins, Futurism, 28 Oct. 2026
Definition of bomb
Noun
  • The main threats will be damaging winds and hail with a low threat for tornadoes and localized flooding from heavy rainfall, according to the NWS.
    — Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 Nov. 2026
  • The boy who would be known forever as the shooter was killed in a hail of gunfire.
    — Ron Farina, Hartford Courant, 1 Nov. 2026
Definition of hail
Verb
  • But innovation does not come from a system that effectively discourages questioning.
    — Washington Post, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2026
  • The Iran war explains part of that, but investors also question a government and Congress with no plan to back the debt with future surpluses.
    — Veronique De Rugy, Oc Register, 7 Nov. 2026
Definition of question

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