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barraging

verb

present participle of barrage

as in bombarding

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 barraging But Mark, in Ronson’s telling, quickly grows antagonistic, abruptly asking Ronson to sign an NDA, then later barraging him with suspicious texts and threatening him with a pair of goons. — Jeremy Gordon, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2026

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Second, tritium does not occur naturally in meaningful quantities, meaning reactors must breed their own fuel by bombarding lithium-bearing blankets with neutrons.

— Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 28 Aug. 2026
Data centers are shifting from the training of AI models — a stage that involves bombarding them with data — to a phase known as inference.

— Bloomberg, Mercury News, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of bombarding

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Interviewees describe hacking little girls’ phones to see when their fathers came home and then bombing their houses, listening while the people on the line screamed and pleaded for help, while mothers cried over their burning daughters.

— Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2026
In 1991, during the Gulf War, America and its allies began bombing Baghdad in response to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait.

— David Friend, Vanity Fair, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of bombing

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The panel’s findings led to a surge of media interest in the UK and around the world questioning the strength of the prosecution’s case.

— Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 15 Sep. 2026
Leaders should continue questioning whether the way their business operates still makes sense for where the company is today.

— Dmitriy Schwarzburg, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2026

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