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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
Ukrainian authorities said that the barrage hit apartment buildings, houses and public transportation in Kyiv, wounding one person. — Susie Blann, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2026 Unlike Purge, which hit hard right out of the gate with a barrage of forceful metal songs, Decay plays more to Godflesh’s experimental side, and its half a dozen tracks are some of the band’s most sophisticated and emotional songs. — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 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
  • OpenAI is holding its annual DevDay developer conference on Tuesday, where the artificial intelligence company is expected to showcase a flurry of new products and features.
    — Ashley Capoot,Kate Rooney,Chris Eudaily, CNBC, 29 Sep. 2026
  • Cliffs teeter at 1,640 feet, before tumbling down in a flurry of vineyards and walking trails to the rushing rivers and gorges of Sil and Miño.
    — Olivia Morelli, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of flurry
Verb
  • Images of hospitals overwhelmed with the sick and dying flooded our consciousness.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Sep. 2026
  • While flooding itself will not be expected across a wide area, the opportunity for strong flood events does look elevated for the state starting in December.
    — Sean Macaday, Sacbee.com, 27 Sep. 2026
Definition of flood
Noun
  • Its armed forces have proved capable of continuing to damage American military bases despite coming under heavy bombardment.
    — Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar, Foreign Affairs, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Libkos | Getty Images News | Getty Images Russia has continued a bombardment on Ukraine’s data centers and communications infrastructure as part of a fresh wave of attacks on the country’s capital.
    — Sam Meredith, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of bombardment
Verb
  • Change this to a charity advertisement, and you get bombarded with hyperbolic sadness, the old people’s tears, their loneliness.
    — Alicja Turczyk, The Dial, 29 Sep. 2026
  • Someone bombards you with a stack of un-asked for pages at a coffee date?
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of bombard
Noun
  • If access to divorce has removed the net from our tennis game, for the one percent, the proceedings have turned into Sincaraz-level volleys.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Paul Marie flicked a ball off the outside of his foot to Judd, who scored on a volley from the edge of the 6-yard box to give the Earthquakes a 3-0 lead in the 29th.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 27 Sep. 2026
Definition of volley
Verb
  • Ukraine has been systematically bombing some of those refineries, severely curtailing the global supply of diesel fuel.
    — Brian Sullivan, CNBC, 22 Sep. 2026
  • Most of these were later destroyed when the family house was bombed during the Lebanese Civil War of 1975.
    — Tara Anne Dalbow, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of bomb
Noun
  • The atmosphere will support a few stronger storms capable of gusty winds, small hail, frequent lightning and brief heavy rainfall, but widespread severe weather is not expected.
    — Michael Autovino, CBS News, 28 Sep. 2026
  • The timing of this hail mary motion is significant because Paramount needs to begin paying a ticking fee of several million dollars a day to WBD shareholders for every day past October 1 the deal fails to close.
    — Brian Welk, IndieWire, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of hail
Verb
  • The apartment that people questioned spending money on is the same one that built her career.
    — Ryan Brennan, Sacbee.com, 3 Oct. 2026
  • Certainly there were clear taboos, beginning with questioning the legitimacy of the Chinese Communist Party and criticizing the country’s central leadership.
    — Howard W. French, The New York Review of Books, 3 Oct. 2026
Definition of question

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