onslaught
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The updated headline online was much more appropriate, relative to the actual debate: "Warren Leads an Onslaught of Attacks, Zeroing In on Bloomberg."
From Salon • Feb. 20, 2020
Some 280 FBI agents were called in from the field this summer for "Operation Onslaught," as the project was called.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Onslaught signifies intensely violent assault, as by an army or a desperado, tho it is sometimes used of violent speech.
From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by Fernald, James Champlin
In the Onslaught Sub-Lieutenant Harry W. A. Kemmis, assisted by Midshipman Reginald G. Arnot, R.N.R., the only executive officers not disabled, brought the ship successfully out of action and reached her home port.
From World's War Events, Vol. II by Reynolds, Francis J. (Francis Joseph)
Vocabulary lists containing onslaught
Words from "The Avengers"
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, "A Date That Will Live In Infamy" (1941)
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"The Diary of Anne Frank," Vocabulary from the drama
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