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Recent Examples of cannon
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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Now someone posts on social media that COVID-19, tariffs, or the war with Iran is going to nuke toilet paper stock, and strangers across the country start loading up their carts.—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
23 Mar. 2026
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Again, not a call to nuke the filibuster exactly, but a demand for legislative action.—
W. James Antle III,
The Washington Examiner,
20 Mar. 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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While walking to her car, Penton was bombarded with insults from shouting supporters of Delgado-Garcia wearing green.—
Colleen Cronin,
Boston Herald,
15 Apr. 2026
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Yet the current system, where kids are bombarded by tests and parents by test scores, has real limitations.—
Abby McCloskey,
Twin Cities,
12 Apr. 2026
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To start the second period, the Wild blitzed Oettinger with three even-strength goals in the first seven minutes.—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
19 Apr. 2026
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For a few minutes, Empower Field 2026 was Shea Stadium 1965, as youngsters blitzed through security to be near Lionel Messi the way your grandma once did to get a closer look at Paul McCartney.—
Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
19 Apr. 2026
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These threats are something Shojaei and her family know all too well — her brother Masoud, who is retired from playing, has had his assets frozen by the Iranian regime over recent weeks — while their neighbourhood was bombed by the US-Israeli offensive.—
Jacob Whitehead,
New York Times,
21 Apr. 2026
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Iran drew a line in the sand against Israel continuing to bomb Lebanon.—
Jordan Blum,
Fortune,
17 Apr. 2026
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“Cannon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cannon. Accessed 23 Apr. 2026.
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