pummeled
Example Sentences
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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
Since June, a succession of heat waves have pummeled the continent, straining its infrastructure and drying out swaths of territory.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Our expectations of normalcy were pummeled into submission long ago.
From Salon ● Jun. 17, 2026
The humid air pummeled us as soon as we left the air-conditioned science building, but I was still grateful for the excuse to escape the classroom.
From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson
