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
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  • In 2003, Libya formally took responsibility for bombing Pan Am 103.
    Keith Langston, PEOPLE, 30 July 2026
  • The meeting came after nearly two weeks of the United States bombing Iran, with Tehran striking back against allies in the region, including a hit on a military base in Jordan that killed three American service members.
    Jonathan Lemire, The Atlantic, 28 July 2026
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  • Cincinnati and Charleston are included in a more serious Level 3 of 4 threat of flooding rainfall Tuesday that stretches from eastern Indiana to central West Virginia.
    Briana Waxman, CNN Money, 10 Aug. 2026
  • There is a reason why the super PACs and the billionaires are flooding Minnesota with all kinds of money.
    CBS News, CBS News, 9 Aug. 2026
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  • New arrival Maghnes Akliouche adds another attacking option this summer, while the signing of Lucas Digne from Villa gives this particular fixture an early subplot, with the full-back facing his old club straight out of the gate.
    Dean Jones, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Three men are charged with attacking a CBS News Chicago crew near the Adler Planetarium at the end of June, before pointing a gun at people in the city's Brighton Park neighborhood before they were arrested.
    CBS Chicago Team, CBS News, 10 Aug. 2026
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  • Conscious reading means questioning every line, editing unapologetically and removing the fluff your customers don't have time to read.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
  • The Times of London published a similar analysis of Arday's thesis that same day, questioning whether Arday should have cited his sources more heavily.
    Mason Leib, ABC News, 6 Aug. 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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  • In the case of the Azov and Aidar women, Russian negotiators were willing to consider their release, given that none of them had taken part in any direct fighting and that Russian investigators had finished interrogating them.
    Joshua Yaffa, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Recognizing those forces in the world isn’t the same thing as interrogating them, and as a seasoned artist with real power in Hollywood, Gluck repeatedly mistakes implication for insight.
    Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 5 Aug. 2026

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