bombarding

present participle of bombard
1
as in bombing
to use bombs or artillery against the Allies bombarded Germany for a great many months during World War II

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2
as in barraging
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 bombarding That was left to the local alternative outlets, who'd start bombarding everyone at our paper to find out who was let go. Sean Joseph Outkick, FOXNews.com, 29 July 2026 Peter Kollanyi / Bloomberg via Getty Images file Pro-Russian groups are bombarding popular AI systems with propaganda to get chatbots to repeat Kremlin talking points, senior European officials say, raising concerns ahead of America’s midterm elections over efforts to silently influence voters. Elizabeth Robinson, NBC news, 26 June 2026 In that essay, Troemel argued that artists were bombarding the internet with their work, and that this constant posting represented an essential shift. Shanti Escalante-De Mattei, ARTnews.com, 16 June 2026 Hadley learned that Vintilla had been working as a restaurant hostess in London when Andrew connected with her on Instagram and began bombarding her with flattery. Heidi Blake, New Yorker, 8 June 2026 Her prank of lying in wait for each of her housemates, bombarding them with a Super Soaker, and then enlisting them in her eco-army of Seussian extremists was just pure wonderful delight. Brian Moylan, Vulture, 6 May 2026 But as Israel and the US continue attacking Iran, with Israel also bombarding Lebanon, progressives are amplifying their demand for clearer moral positioning on the Middle East. David Weigel, semafor.com, 6 Apr. 2026 Israel struck back, bombarding Lebanon and targeting Hezbollah in deadly airstrikes, expanding its presence in southern Lebanon and amassing more troops near the border. Alon Bernstein, Chicago Tribune, 22 Mar. 2026 Israel has retaliated by bombarding southern Lebanon and Beirut's southern suburbs. Lucia I Suarez Sang, CBS News, 6 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bombarding
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  • When America and Israel started bombing Iran, our military bombed an elementary school, killing more than 160 children.
    Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 19 July 2026
  • French officials condemned the damage to the ancient monastery, comparing it to bombing Notre-Dame, while Ukrainian religious leaders called it a crime against humanity.
    Mark Temnycky, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
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  • Digg shut down its Reddit competitor in March, citing an inability to control the volume of bots flooding the site.
    Gabriel Alin Zainescu, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026
  • Heavy rains earlier this week swamped other areas of New York as well as New Jersey and Pennsylvania, flooding streets and leading to water rescues.
    ABC News, ABC News, 30 July 2026
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  • Iran has bombarded several of its neighbors’ data centers, and the United States responded by attacking one of Iran’s.
    David Goldman, CNN Money, 3 Aug. 2026
  • That’s in stark contrast to their arachnid cousins, spiders, whose females that tend to be violent, attacking and eating the males.
    Christa Lesté-Lasserre, Scientific American, 3 Aug. 2026
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  • An appeal, on the other hand, can only consider evidence that’s already in the record and is typically filed when a defendant is questioning a judge’s decision.
    Alex Brizee July 30, Idaho Statesman, 30 July 2026
  • Al-Ahli released an atypical official statement questioning the officiating of one game in April.
    Adrian Elimian, semafor.com, 30 July 2026
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  • Its forces are battering Iran’s coast – military installations, bridges, airports, port facilities – to neutralise the Iranian military’s hold on the strait.
    The Week UK, TheWeek, 25 July 2026
  • Because of battering wind shear, the convective storms typical of the center of a cyclone are in a band over the Gulf to Bertha's south and southeast.
    Doyle Rice, USA Today, 22 July 2026
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  • The analyst’s value has shifted from extracting data to interrogating what the system surfaces.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026
  • But the filmmaker proves more interested in interrogating that ethos than recreating it, and few horror mythologies are better suited to exploring betrayal and regret than one built around the refusal to let the dead remain dead.
    Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 8 July 2026

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