cannoned

past tense of cannon

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for cannoned
Verb
  • This season, opposing defenses have blitzed the Hawks nearly 50% of the time, resulting in four of Robertson’s five interceptions.
    Hunter Bailey, Charlotte Observer, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The Chargers blitzed the Chiefs in the first half and held on for a 27-21 win in the season opener at Neo Química Arena in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The likelihood is that your HNWI customers are time-poor people bombarded with hundreds of requests every day.
    Matteo Atti, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Kyiv, Ukraine — Kyiv was bombarded overnight by Russia’s second-biggest aerial attack since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, with at least 21 people killed, including four children, according to officials.
    Svitlana Vlasova, CNN Money, 28 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Higher education continues to be buffeted by changes in the way American families view college educations.
    Jeffrey Steele, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
  • His presidency also was buffeted by domestic crises — rampant inflation and high unemployment, as well as interminable lines at gas stations triggered by a decline in the global oil supply exacerbated by Iran’s Islamic Revolution.
    Scott Kraft, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • While cruise line operators are enjoying a surge in popularity after the pandemic badly battered the industry—and Carnival itself reported an all-time high of $25 billion in annual revenue in 2024—investments in AI and other technologies could make travel by ship even more desirable.
    John Kell, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The Long Walk takes place in an alternate America in what looks like the ’60s or ’70s, one that’s been battered and economically devastated by an internal conflict.
    Alison Willmore, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • De’Andre Johnson ambushed and choked the agent in a DCS office, livestreaming the attack on Facebook.
    Miguel Torres, AZCentral.com, 6 Sep. 2025
  • The season will detail 10 different cases, including a Las Vegas journalist ambushed outside his residence, a body dumped in a NYC tunnel, and a mission to discover the identity of a victim found in the East River.
    Giana Levy, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Iran, whose nuclear-weapons program the United States bombed in June, has the Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics.
    Bart Jansen, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Residents in Gaza City told CNN of horrifying nights as Israel bombed the city from above and ground forces pushed into the outskirts of the city.
    Oren Liebermann, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Still, plenty of players have had fast starts to their careers only to be waylaid by health issues or bizarre regressions.
    Alex Kirschenbaum, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Sep. 2025
  • McDonald had grown up attending church services, but decades of addiction and abuse had waylaid her.
    Jillian Steinhauer, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2025
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“Cannoned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cannoned. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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