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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
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Fallen Angels itself — about a pair of witty, worldly besties who get blitzed on champagne while considering cheating on their husbands with a mutual old flame — landed its author in trouble with the censors in London.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
20 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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The reason the research team believes Ryugu was bombarded by micrometeorites is due to a fine layer of sodium, just 10 nanometers thick, on the surface of the asteroid's fragments.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
24 Apr. 2026
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In the fight over solar development, Heath said he was bombarded by just about every argument from critics — including claims that solar fields are a health hazard.—
Anna Clark,
ProPublica,
24 Apr. 2026
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For Buffalo, Dahlin is one of the favorites for the Norris and he’s buffeted by the sturdy and surprisingly productive Samuelsson (13-28-41, plus-41).—
Steve Conroy,
Boston Herald,
17 Apr. 2026
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Use a pair of 10X50 binoculars to spot C/2025 R3's glowing nucleus, or long-exposure photography to capture striking details in Comet PanSTARRS' tail as it's buffeted by the solar wind.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
16 Apr. 2026
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Underneath it all, is a town that’s been battered by hard economic times.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
17 Apr. 2026
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Los Angeles’ film and TV production crisis, which has battered the entertainment industry’s working classes, is emerging as a key issue in the city’s mayoral campaign.—
Gary Baum,
HollywoodReporter,
17 Apr. 2026
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Then in Brookhaven, a homeless man was ambushed and shot several times while sleeping outside a shopping center on Peachtree Road.—
Landon Mion , Bill Melugin,
FOXNews.com,
15 Apr. 2026
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The Twins ambushed Crochet with four runs in the first inning, then knocked out Boston's ace lefty with a seven-run second.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
14 Apr. 2026
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Imagine being a parent of one of the one hundred and seventy-five girls who died when their school was bombed.—
Charles Bethea,
New Yorker,
26 Apr. 2026
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That put out of business one of the country’s largest Klan organizations, the same group that bombed Birmingham’s 16th Street Baptist Church in 1963, killing four Black girls.—
Josh Meyer,
USA Today,
25 Apr. 2026
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The Padres have gotten promising results from two reclamation projects in Walker Buehler and Germán Márquez, veterans who used to lead pitching staffs before Tommy John surgery waylaid them the past couple seasons.—
Kevin Acee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 Apr. 2026
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Now Picard is zipping around the cosmos again, The Lord of the Rings is waylaid with prequels and spin-offs, and somehow, Palpatine returned.—
Matthew Razak,
Space.com,
13 Apr. 2026
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“Cannoned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cannoned. Accessed 27 Apr. 2026.
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