as in flooding
to cover with a flood
water from the overflowing bathtub inundated the bathroom floor
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Recent Examples of inundating
Open, honest, and transparent information—thorough enough for meaningful discussion without inundating directors with details—is a cornerstone to maintaining a trusting relationship between the board and management.
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Preston Fore, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2025
The more surgical approach allows the department to address crime and its root causes without inundating communities with officers.
—Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 Sep. 2025
Right-wing influencers have relentlessly campaigned for these people to lose their jobs, tagging their employers’ online accounts and inundating their places of work with aggrieved emails and phone calls.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 18 Sep. 2025
Reliably unpredictable and obsessively prolific, Young stayed in the news by inundating record store shelves.
—Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2025
Flooding is a disruption tactic that entails inundating one’s cell with toilet water.
—Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 21 Aug. 2025
This summer, on July 4, a flood beyond anyone’s expectations killed 28 campers and staffers, inundating many of the Camp Mystic buildings.
—Evan Bush, NBC news, 12 Aug. 2025
Expect college recruiters to be inundating him with offers this spring.
—Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2025
The flooding was cataclysmic, wiping out whole villages while inundating houses, infrastructure, and farmland.
—Sade Agard, Interesting Engineering, 4 Feb. 2025
Preston Fore, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2025
The more surgical approach allows the department to address crime and its root causes without inundating communities with officers.
—Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 Sep. 2025
Right-wing influencers have relentlessly campaigned for these people to lose their jobs, tagging their employers’ online accounts and inundating their places of work with aggrieved emails and phone calls.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 18 Sep. 2025
Reliably unpredictable and obsessively prolific, Young stayed in the news by inundating record store shelves.
—Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2025
Flooding is a disruption tactic that entails inundating one’s cell with toilet water.
—Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 21 Aug. 2025
This summer, on July 4, a flood beyond anyone’s expectations killed 28 campers and staffers, inundating many of the Camp Mystic buildings.
—Evan Bush, NBC news, 12 Aug. 2025
Expect college recruiters to be inundating him with offers this spring.
—Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2025
The flooding was cataclysmic, wiping out whole villages while inundating houses, infrastructure, and farmland.
—Sade Agard, Interesting Engineering, 4 Feb. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inundating
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Several private roads were impassable Monday due to Vallecito Creek and Grimes Creek flooding over the banks.—
Lauren Penington,
Denver Post,
13 Oct. 2025
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Disingenuous advertising can lure in claimants with questionable or exaggerated claims, flooding the courts with frivolous cases.—
Josh Hammer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 Oct. 2025
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An opera which seriously addressed that theme would be equal to the crisis that is engulfing the American experiment.—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
6 Oct. 2025
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Videos on social media and broadcast by CNN affiliates showed fierce flames engulfing the beachfront property with plumes of smoke rising into the air.—
Cindy Von Quednow,
CNN Money,
6 Oct. 2025
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Both of these will amplify that creamy base and give you amped up staying power without overwhelming the floral heart.—
Kimberly Wilson,
Essence,
10 Oct. 2025
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Looking at the numbers, California’s gasoline demand of 874,000 barrels a day is already overwhelming the state’s refining capacity that falls to 740,000 barrels daily after the Phillips 66 closure.—
Jordan Blum,
Fortune,
9 Oct. 2025
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“Inundating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inundating. Accessed 15 Oct. 2025.
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