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bombard

[bom-bahrd, buhm-, bom-bahrd] / bɒmˈbɑrd, bəm-, ˈbɒm bɑrd /


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"These rare events, triggered by large, well-positioned collisions in the main asteroid belt, bombard all inner solar system worlds," Bottke said.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 18, 2026

‘I’ve plenty of time on my hands’: Advisers bombard me with offers of free steak dinners.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 8, 2026

Deming goes old school to distort Reilly’s focus and bombard him with harsh spotlights.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026

The Apple feature, introduced last year with iOS 26, is meant to block the spam calls that continue to bombard Americans’ devices.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 29, 2026

If we bombard protons at high energies with other elementary particles—other protons, say—we begin to glimpse more fundamental units hiding inside the proton.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

The university of the future will succeed if it teaches students how to think and talk about the information that bombards them daily.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

Without this invisible barrier, Earth would be exposed to the same constant stream of charged particles that bombards other planets in our solar system, such as Mars, making life there far more difficult.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2025

Schools pile on homework, extracurricular activities consume evenings, and social media bombards us with comparisons to seemingly perfect families.

From Salon ● Sep. 17, 2024

The Sun bombards Earth with a tremendous amount of energy, and the vast majority of it is reflected or quickly re-emitted as infrared heat.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 4, 2024

Imam Malik looks helpless as our class bombards him with questions.

From "Amina's Voice" by Hena Khan

Many people are perplexed about that because they are bombarded by Medicare-related mail as they approach 65 and assume they must do something new, says financial planner Stephen Maggard of Columbia, S.C.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

Adding to the phone-calls-may-be-disruptive argument, Hall said in today’s digital-heavy world, people are constantly being bombarded by notifications on their phones.

From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2026

And I really can't because they're probably being bombarded by 700 people over there.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

They then bombarded the gas mixture with protons to imitate the stream of energetic particles generated by solar superflares.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 2, 2026

As he breathed in deeply, trying to settle his nerves, a mixture of smells bombarded him.

From "The Maze Runner" by James Dashner

But we also have things like Netflix Playground bombarding us.

From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2026

To win some room to push back with Trump in private, Rutte began bombarding him with public support and praise.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026

Ecuador, which finished second in the South American World Cup qualifiers, put up a strong fight, bombarding the Mexican team with crosses, albeit without much organization.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

As diplomats wrangle for a breakthrough in what has been Europe's deadliest conflict since World War II, Russia has continued to press forward with its assault, bombarding Ukraine daily.

From Barron's ● Jan. 9, 2026

As one of the lab’s senior scientists, McMillan was at the hub of Ernest’s campaign to augment the discovery of fission by bombarding uranium and logging the reactions.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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