barraged

past tense of barrage
as in bombarded
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 barraged The Weather Channel radar shows Lake County getting barraged with rain. — Buddy Collings, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 Sep. 2026 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 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 We’re often barraged with a series of facts, dates and notable events, and the results can be dry as dust. — Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 18 Feb. 2026 After Warren Buffett’s death, Susie, Howie and Peter will become three of the most important philanthropists in the world, scrutinized by the media, widely followed by other wealthy donors and barraged with requests for funds. — Robert Frank, CNBC, 15 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for barraged
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  • Writers are also being bombarded with offers to publish our next book, market our book, handle social media for us, represent us as agents, and get us book-to-movie deals with Netflix and Paramount.
    — Snigdha Poonam, The Dial, 13 Oct. 2026
  • At the outset of Wednesday’s hearing, Judge Kaplan acknowledged the keen interest in LIV’s Chapter 11 case, recounting how he had been bombarded over the weekend at his golf club about what would happen next.
    — Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 7 Oct. 2026
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  • The grand staircase was covered in 6 inches of ice and the basement was flooded with 4 feet of water.
    — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026
  • While outside spending in support of Paxton has flooded the Texas airwaves with ads, Talarico's campaign itself has outpaced Paxton's in fundraising from donors eager for Texas to forgo its solidly Republican title.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 15 Oct. 2026

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“Barraged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/barraged. Accessed 19 Oct. 2026.

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