Thesaurus results for BARRAGED

barraged

verb

past tense of barrage

as in bombarded

to attack with a rapid or overwhelming outpouring of many things at once the star athlete was barraged with requests for an autograph

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Recent Examples of barraged 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 Residents of Syracuse, New York — America’s snowiest city — once barraged a service hotline with street neglect complaints during blizzards, even if plows had passed two hours earlier but the work was hidden by fresh snow. — Jeff McMurray, Fortune, 3 Mar. 2026 We’re often barraged with a series of facts, dates and notable events, and the results can be dry as dust. — Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 18 Feb. 2026 After Warren Buffett’s death, Susie, Howie and Peter will become three of the most important philanthropists in the world, scrutinized by the media, widely followed by other wealthy donors and barraged with requests for funds. — Robert Frank, CNBC, 15 Jan. 2026

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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

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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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