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cannonading

verb

present participle of cannonade

as in bombing

to use bombs or artillery against the artillery cannonaded the enemy encampment all night

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The status of its nuclear program, degraded by bombing strikes in 2025, hasn't changed.

— Susan Page, USA Today, 25 Aug. 2026
Prabowo vowed the government would continue supporting firefighting operations, including through the deployment of additional water-bombing helicopters and oxygen supplies for firefighters.

— ABC News, ABC News, 24 Aug. 2026

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After the 2017 crackdown, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims crossed from Rakhine into neighboring Bangladesh on foot and by boat during shelling, indiscriminate killings and other violence.

— ABC News, ABC News, 25 Aug. 2026
Mansouri was subjected to Israeli shelling earlier this week, according to Lebanon’s state news agency.

— Matthew Lee, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2026

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Her boyfriend was never charged, though he was sentenced to probation for battering a police officer about five weeks after Danielle was killed.

— Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 26 Aug. 2026
Across the country in Hawaii, Hurricane Lala grazed the state over the weekend, battering the islands with heavy rains and winds, but did not make landfall.

— Peter Weber, TheWeek, 17 Aug. 2026

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