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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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The Miami Hurricanes blitzed him a lot (60 pass-rush snaps), and Scott honed this skill, learning how to disguise and time up blitzes.—
Ted Nguyen,
New York Times,
26 Apr. 2026
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In Game 3, Cleveland was blitzed by the Raptors and lost by 22.—
David Troy OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
26 Apr. 2026
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Much earlier, in 1983, a plot by the IRA to bomb a Duran Duran concert at the Dominion Theatre was discovered.—
StyleCaster Editors,
StyleCaster,
29 Apr. 2026
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Yesterday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Israeli military personnel that the terms of the ceasefire with Lebanon allow Israel to continue bombing throughout the country.—
Mustafa Qadri,
CNN Money,
28 Apr. 2026
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“Cannon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cannon. Accessed 30 Apr. 2026.
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