pummel
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Nanos spent Saturday afternoon watching the undefeated University of Arizona Wildcats men’s basketball team pummel the Oklahoma State Cowboys, ignoring the stares and iPhones pointed his way from people in the crowd.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
The film’s brilliance comes from Wain and Marino knowing how to pummel the viewer with jokes while measuring each punchline’s individual weight.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026
Tornadoes, thunderstorms and blizzard conditions are forecast to pummel parts of the eastern US.
From BBC ● Mar. 16, 2026
This week, investors became very worried that rapidly-advancing AI capabilities offered by companies like Anthropic are going to pummel any company with services that include enterprise software.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 4, 2026
For all that she wanted to pummel Kaz, she couldn’t help being a bit grateful, too.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
Search and rescue teams fan across Florida after Hurricane Milton strikes with storm surges up to 10 feet and 120 mph winds and pummels communities with deadly tornadoes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2024
And severe weather pummels both the Northeast and West Coast.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 21, 2023
Lethal landslides are common in the area when heavy monsoon rain pummels Myanmar between May and October.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2023
The sheer force of their thousand-pound bodies pummels the dirt track's hazardous slings — but only after first funneling through the narrow cabling of their spindly forelimb ligaments.
From Salon ● Jun. 10, 2023
I assume she’s talking to me, but when she gets to us, she pummels right into Rhiannon.
From "Every Day" by David Levithan
Our expectations of normalcy were pummeled into submission long ago.
From Salon ● Jun. 17, 2026
But the production crisis, which has rocked Hollywood and pummeled its workforce, has reached a critical juncture.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 17, 2026
They’ve already been pummeled by years of high inflation.
From MarketWatch ● May 2, 2026
It’s a continued reversal of the war trade that had pummeled stocks and sent oil past $100 a barrel.
From Barron's ● Apr. 17, 2026
He’d never gotten into a fight at school or pummeled anyone.
From "Time Bomb" by Joelle Charbonneau
The Kospi, which was pummelled almost 19 percent on Tuesday and Wednesday before bouncing more than nine percent Thursday, shed 1.5 percent.
From Barron's ● Mar. 6, 2026
The group pummelled the bot with more than 1,000 prompts to bypass the safeguards and convince Claude they were allowed to test the system for vulnerabilities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2026
Also on the main card, rising Frenchman Benoit Saint Denis pummelled New Zealand's Dan Hooker with a second round technical knockout in the lightweight.
From Barron's ● Feb. 1, 2026
The landslides come after heavy rain pummelled parts of the North Island for days.
From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2026
I’d looked at Kat’s little finger, and imagined Dad going around it, in miniature, stretched and pummelled into an odd-looking, living ring.
From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd
“They’re pummeling us every day,” said a woman pensioner sitting among her friends on benches in a leafy courtyard of a Soviet-era apartment block.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
On this night, the mercenaries prevailed, in a pummeling so relentless and a silencing so rapid that a three-peat appeared all but inevitable: Dodgers 14, Blue Jays 2.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2026
A San Diego man was killed Wednesday morning after a tree fell on him, the third death linked to the storm pummeling Southern California over the holiday, the San Diego Police Department confirmed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 25, 2025
After pummeling Jamaica, Melissa was forecast to head north and cross over eastern Cuba on Tuesday night, while continuing to bring rain and heavy winds to Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2025
He rambled on with this fraudulent recollection while Henry, pale and ill, endured his prods and backslaps as a well-trained dog will tolerate the pummeling of a rough child.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
The study only looked at data up to 2024, however Emerton said the heatwaves already pummelling Europe this year suggest the trend has been continuing.
From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026
“Artificial Angels” captures the pummelling wrongness of internet-assisted living in 2025.
From Salon ● Nov. 7, 2025
Hitting with depth and pummelling his forehand in particular, he stuck in the rallies with the defensive Medvedev and returned serve well.
From BBC ● May 27, 2025
He did not score a run between deep square leg and backward point during his 54 balls, instead pummelling the straight boundaries.
From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2025
And again she began her pummelling with redoubled energy.
From Jane Lends A Hand by Watkins, Shirley
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