Thesaurus results for BOMBARDED

bombarded

verb

past tense of bombard

as in bombed

to use bombs or artillery against the Allies bombarded Germany for a great many months during World War II

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to attack with a rapid or overwhelming outpouring of many things at once reporters bombarded the company spokesman with sharp questions

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Recent Examples of bombarded 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 New assistants, agents and editor plug-ins ship every month aimed squarely at engineers, who are bombarded with ads and news about each release. — Rob Black, Forbes.com, 23 Sep. 2026 We get bombarded with f---ing advice about how to be and how to be perceived. — Jack Irvin, PEOPLE, 22 Sep. 2026 Carole seems good-natured about answering questions but also acknowledges that she’s been bombarded by them. — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 16 Sep. 2026 It has been seen all too often in which stars are bombarded with requests at hotels and at airports. — Ryan Gaydos Outkick, FOXNews.com, 15 Sep. 2026 Soon after the moon was formed, asteroids bombarded it, creating its pockmarked topography. — Martin Elvis, Space.com, 14 Sep. 2026 But now, new research has found asteroids and comets that have bombarded Mercury have created debris obscuring just how much Mercury has shrunk. — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2026 The Martian surface is a practically airless vacuum, constantly bombarded with radiation, and regularly reaches temperatures as low as -81 degrees Fahrenheit. — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 10 Sep. 2026

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That changed a bit earlier this month when the Houthis bombed the Saudi East-West pipeline, temporarily shutting down roughly 7 million barrels of oil flowing to the Red Sea – more than half of which had been diverted from the Strait of Hormuz.

— David Goldman, CNN Money, 29 Sep. 2026
Palminteri argued that early career struggles do not define a player's potential, pointing to guys like Sam Darnold and Baker Mayfield who got drafted, bombed, busted, and then roared back.

— Alejandro Avila OutKick, FOXNews.com, 29 Sep. 2026

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Luhring Augustine moved into the 3,500-square-foot space in September 2020, as galleries flooded the neighborhood, lured by the low rents spawned by the Covid-19 crisis.

— News Desk, Artforum, 2 Oct. 2026
Clearly he hasn’t been flooded with offers since that accolade, so his agent has set him up with Lady Isabella, who claims to have a Netflix commission for a bio-doc about her life.

— Guy Lodge, Variety, 2 Oct. 2026

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Russia's Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said Friday that Ukraine attacked four Russian oil refineries overnight, but air defenses fended off the attacks.

— HANNA ARHIROVA, Arkansas Online, 3 Oct. 2026
Trust took another nosedive when OpenAI’s agents attacked Hugging Face this summer and, in a world-first, a rogue model hacked the Australian Government’s website.

— Yerbol Orynbayev, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2026

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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

Definition of barraged

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The deal is a way to repair relationships between the agency and west Charlotte residents who have questioned NCDOT’s communication and transparency on the multi-billion dollar toll lane project.

— Desiree Mathurin, Charlotte Observer, 1 Oct. 2026
Prosecutors questioned the schizophrenia diagnosis and pointed out that suffering from mental illness is not the same as meeting the legal standard of insanity.

— Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026

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