pummel

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

If oil prices go significantly higher, that could pummel spending and employment, prompting the Fed to cut rates to prevent a recession.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 29, 2026

The fast-developing storm is threatening to pummel the US East Coast with a foot or more of snow beginning Sunday, just weeks after the region recovered from another devastating weather system.

From Barron's ● Feb. 22, 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

Now they say they have nowhere to hide from intense flooding as rainfall exacerbated by the weather phenomenon El Nino pummels large parts of Somalia.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 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

Sonia pummels the water with her arms and pushes it behind her with her legs.

From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins

Even as their shares got pummeled, software companies have been showing their financial strength.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

The country's third-largest city was pummeled by a 7.4 magnitude earthquake on Monday, along with swaths of Colombia's coffee region and western coast.

From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026

Leveraged ETFs tied to chipmaker SK Hynix were pummeled Tuesday, amid a punishing selloff in semiconductor stocks this month as whiplash around the powerful artificial-intelligence trade continues.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026

In an industry that hasn’t seen traffic come back since COVID-19 and was further pummeled by the Palisades fire last year, it was a welcome sight for Lisa Powers, the restaurant’s operations manager.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026

The water pummeled him and lifted him up and shoved him back down.

From "The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane" by Kate DiCamillo

Ukraine's energy network, already pummelled by Russian attacks over more than four years of war, was buckling under the high temperatures on Monday.

From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026

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

Haiti and other parts of the Caribbean were also destroyed when the Category 5 storm pummelled through the region.

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2025

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

On a vast beach in Morocco last year, waves were pummeling one of humanity’s oldest plot devices.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

Michigan’s pummeling of fellow No. 1 seed Arizona on Saturday night, 91-73, proved one thing beyond a doubt.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 2026

In her first picture, she stood in a one-piece on a boulder, smiling, a waterfall pummeling behind her.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2026

After a shock reverse against the lowly Indiana Pacers on Tuesday, the Knicks got back into their stride with a lopsided pummeling of the Sixers.

From Barron's ● Feb. 12, 2026

He had a breezy highway driving style, but when making any kind of maneuver he snapped into military action, pummeling the wheel with strong hands.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

The heatwaves pummelling Europe this summer will have costly impacts on industries ranging from agriculture to tourism -- but that hasn't stopped stock markets from hitting all-time highs.

From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026

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

Denmark needed one goal to guarantee automatic qualification and send Scotland to the purgatory of the play-offs - and they were pummelling Belarus in pursuit of it.

From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2026

“Artificial Angels” captures the pummelling wrongness of internet-assisted living in 2025.

From Salon ● Nov. 7, 2025

Thus they preface their bridals by displays of gallantry, recalling the ancient betrothal customs of which Rabelais speaks; the pretenders were cuffed and derided and threatened with a hearty pummelling.

From Fabre, Poet of Science by Bernard Miall