Thesaurus results for BOMBARDED

bombarded

verb

past tense of bombard

as in bombed

to use bombs or artillery against the Allies bombarded Germany for a great many months during World War II

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to attack with a rapid or overwhelming outpouring of many things at once reporters bombarded the company spokesman with sharp questions

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Recent Examples of bombarded Over billions of years, this wind has bombarded every body in the vicinity of the Sun, including Earth’s Moon. — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 26 Aug. 2026 The Ojai center was bombarded with intrusive calls, and conspiracy theorists accused the staff of manipulating information to secure donations. — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2026 The average consumer is bombarded from every direction with news and shorts and explainers and how-tos. — Jeanna Bryner, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2026 The agents bombarded local election officials with requests for voting histories and other records, some dating back decades. — Peter Elkind, ProPublica, 14 Aug. 2026 Leaders are often bombarded with a constant stream of stress—from economic uncertainty and workplace pressure to information overload from TV or social media—which can leave them trapped in a cycle of anxiety and self-doubt. — Simone Lundquist, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026 The shop was quickly bombarded on Google with one-star reviews with people describing the shop and its inventory as terrible, stupid, shameful, awful and a disgrace. — Noelle Alviz-Gransee, Kansas City Star, 7 Aug. 2026 Iran has bombarded several of its neighbors’ data centers, and the United States responded by attacking one of Iran’s. — David Goldman, CNN Money, 3 Aug. 2026 Russia bombarded Ukraine last weekend with one of the largest ballistic-missile barrages of the entire war. — Mark Montgomery, Washington Post, 31 July 2026

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Hmeimin served as a hub for Syrian warplanes that repeatedly bombed anti-Assad opposition groups, killing several civilians and destroying large parts of Syria’s infrastructure, including hospitals and medical facilities, in the process.

— Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 23 Aug. 2026
Targets for violence For example, Bethel Baptist Church and its parsonage in Birmingham, Alabama, were bombed three times.

— Jason Wollschleger, The Conversation, 19 Aug. 2026

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Meta is rolling out an obvious fix to make its AI glasses less creepy amid backlash over the glasses’ non-consensual recordings that have flooded the Internet.

— Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 28 Aug. 2026
But New Yorkers flooded social media after news broke, and eventually a petition was made in an effort to save the theater.

— Amethyst Martinez, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2026

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But the university’s recent actions in a lawsuit filed by a former student who was attacked on campus during that period appear at odds with that commitment.

— Joaquin Sapien, ProPublica, 28 Aug. 2026
Not long after Bungalow 8 opened, the World Trade Center was attacked.

— Derek C. Blasberg, Vanity Fair, 28 Aug. 2026

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Each character has totally justified and totally unjustified reasons for resenting one another, and the sensation of absorbing those contrasting opinions is like being in a stuck bumper car, barraged and battered from all sides.

— Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 16 Apr. 2026
Checchi, in particular, barraged voters with an unrelenting flood of ads.

— Mark Z. Barabak, Mercury News, 28 Mar. 2026

Definition of barraged

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He was initially detained and questioned then released from Bahamian custody in April.

— Kelsie Cairns, FOXNews.com, 29 Aug. 2026
Several election officials and government advocates have questioned how quickly the Postal Service can stand up the systems necessary to ensure the rule can be followed for this election.

— Sarah D. Wire, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2026

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