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cannonaded

verb

past tense of cannonade

as in bombed

to use bombs or artillery against the artillery cannonaded the enemy encampment all night

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In Yemen, the Houthis (an Iranian proxy group) bombed Saudi Arabia's Abha International Airport.

— Jim Edwards, Fortune, 14 July 2026
Things had improved since then, before spilling out into the open late last year when Saudi Arabia bombed a port in Yemen targeting a weapons shipment from the UAE.

— Matthew Martin, semafor.com, 9 July 2026

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Pitching was supposed to be the strength Heading into the season, pitching was viewed as the Marlins’ clearest strength before the staff was battered by injuries.

— Tyler M. Carmona July 15, Miami Herald, 15 July 2026
One person remains missing in Missouri after heavy rainfall battered parts of the state Friday, forcing numerous emergency rescues and evacuations, including at a summer camp with more than 200 children.

— Hallie Golden, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2026

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With the wind and the sea now working against them, Odysseus and his men were next led to the Laestrygonian giants, who brutally attacked them, leaving them with only one ship and its crew.

— Tanya Fedak, Variety, 18 July 2026
Iran attacked a power generation and water desalination plant in Kuwait, the Gulf nation said on Saturday.

— Monica Haider, CNN Money, 18 July 2026

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In fact, some scientists think that life on Earth could've been sparked by asteroids delivering the materials for life via such collisions during an era where our planet was heavily bombarded by such objects around four billion years ago.

— Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 15 July 2026
Then there is the fate of the incumbent, who fled Tibet’s capital Lhasa for India in 1959 just days before red Chinese troops bombarded the sloping granite walls of his Potala Palace home.

— Charlie Campbell, Time, 9 July 2026

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For homemade, combine ¾ cup sugar, ¾ cup water, ½ cup shelled and toasted pistachios and a pinch of salt in a saucepan.

— Gretchen McKay, Boston Herald, 8 July 2026
These coiled, shelled relatives of squid and octopuses were abundant predators, hunting in the same waters as fish, turtles, sharks and extinct marine reptiles called plesiosaurs.

— Torben Rick, The Conversation, 18 June 2026

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