CANNONED Synonyms: 58 Similar and Opposite Words

cannoned

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past tense of cannon

as in cannonaded

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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
Checchi, in particular, barraged voters with an unrelenting flood of ads.

— Mark Z. Barabak, Mercury News, 28 Mar. 2026

Definition of barraged

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Payton shot down a report of a position change early in camp, but there was Barron in the first half Friday night looking like a safety on one particular snap as the Broncos blitzed in zero coverage.

— Troy Renck, Denver Post, 19 Aug. 2026
On the next play, Hicks blitzed and jumped in an attempt to bat down Mahomes’ pass to Noah Gray, and the pressure affected the ball’s trajectory enough that Alohi Gilman was able to step in front and pick it off.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of blitzed

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Over billions of years, this wind has bombarded every body in the vicinity of the Sun, including Earth’s Moon.

— Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 26 Aug. 2026
The Ojai center was bombarded with intrusive calls, and conspiracy theorists accused the staff of manipulating information to secure donations.

— Alex Ross, New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2026

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OpenAI’s salesforce buffeted by change, leadership turnover Rajic’s predecessor, Dresser, also approached her work with notable intensity.

— Emily Forlini, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2026
Growing worries over whether Big Tech’s massive investments in artificial-intelligence technology will translate into profits and whether chipmaker stocks have soared too high in the euphoria around AI have also buffeted share prices.

— ABC News, ABC News, 3 Aug. 2026

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As Cole is driving Tibu back from a passing-of-the-torch party, the two are ambushed, and Tibu is killed.

— Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 19 Aug. 2026
While there was a period of harmony between the two coasts, that imploded after Shakur was ambushed at a Times Square recording studio in November 1994.

— Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2026

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Hmeimin served as a hub for Syrian warplanes that repeatedly bombed anti-Assad opposition groups, killing several civilians and destroying large parts of Syria’s infrastructure, including hospitals and medical facilities, in the process.

— Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 23 Aug. 2026
Targets for violence For example, Bethel Baptist Church and its parsonage in Birmingham, Alabama, were bombed three times.

— Jason Wollschleger, The Conversation, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of bombed

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What had been perhaps Buxton’s finest overall season has been waylaid by a hip impingement that’s twice landed him on the IL and wrecked his production even when on the field since the start of July.

— Grant Brisbee, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026
Or the family might have simply gotten waylaid by other plans.

— R. Eric Thomas, Mercury News, 27 July 2026

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