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From there, Stefan Ortega saved superbly, only for Ola Aina’s clearance to cannon off Mac Allister and into an empty net, before it was ruled out for handball following a VAR check.
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Gregg Evans, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2026
The junior didn’t pitch from Feb. 23 to April 18 with a shoulder injury, yet triumphed to cannon a 19-strikeout no-hitter on June 16 in a 3-0 win against Murray State.
—Erick Taylor, Arkansas Online, 31 Dec. 2025
His 79th-minute header from Andy Robertson’s free kick beat goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma but cannoned off the upright and across the face of the goal with no Liverpool player able to follow up, and the Premier League leaders ended up losing the last-16 tie in a penalty shootout.
—Andy Jones, The Athletic, 13 Mar. 2025
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Gregg Evans, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2026
The junior didn’t pitch from Feb. 23 to April 18 with a shoulder injury, yet triumphed to cannon a 19-strikeout no-hitter on June 16 in a 3-0 win against Murray State.
—Erick Taylor, Arkansas Online, 31 Dec. 2025
His 79th-minute header from Andy Robertson’s free kick beat goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma but cannoned off the upright and across the face of the goal with no Liverpool player able to follow up, and the Premier League leaders ended up losing the last-16 tie in a penalty shootout.
—Andy Jones, The Athletic, 13 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cannon
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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
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Checchi, in particular, barraged voters with an unrelenting flood of ads.—
Mark Z. Barabak,
Mercury News,
28 Mar. 2026
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But Americans chose to cannonade each other with pamphlets, not artillery.—
Joseph Tartakovsky,
WSJ,
2 July 2018
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One of them nukes a ton of Gmail functionality, and neither is explained very well.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
30 Apr. 2026
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That bridge has been burned, detonated, destroyed, nuked, lasered to death.—
Mark Harris OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
29 Apr. 2026
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To celebrate, the president wants to offer free admissions that day to the country’s national parks, a self-serving gesture, no doubt, but one that is no surprise for a man who spent much of his adult life plastering his name on the sides of buildings, airplanes and casino hotels.—
Leonard Greene,
Mercury News,
27 Dec. 2025
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In one scene, Gracie Abrams texts Taylor a picture of the singer plastered on the side of a hotel in Indianapolis.—
Maya Georgi,
Rolling Stone,
23 Dec. 2025
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To test the thermal system under flight conditions, CIRA used its own in-house plasma wind tunnel — the largest in the world — to bombard the components with a jet of gas blasted at 10 times the speed of sound.—
Josh Dinner,
Space.com,
6 May 2026
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Inside a hotel in the city, anchor Bernard Shaw reported live as airstrikes bombarded the city.—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
6 May 2026
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The Chiefs have been unable to generate pressure without blitzing for a half-decade, instead relying on Steve Spagnuolo’s creativity in designing blitzes to get in the backfield.—
Sam McDowell,
Kansas City Star,
3 May 2026
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The Knicks blitzed the Hawks off the opening tip, racing to an 83-36 halftime lead.—
Devon Henderson,
New York Times,
1 May 2026
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Before Paddack was bombed Sunday, the Marlins had no intention of promoting Garrett or Snelling or White immediately.—
Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
4 May 2026
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Trump claimed Friday that the law is a moot point because the United States is no longer bombing Iran.—
Michael Loria,
USA Today,
2 May 2026
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“Cannon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cannon. Accessed 10 May. 2026.
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