as in flurry
a rapid or overwhelming outpouring of many things at once
the teacher's rapid-fire barrage of homework assignments went by too fast for me to write them all down
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as in to flood
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 barrage
Julie K. Brown, Miami Herald, 12 Feb. 2025
With a barrage of questions, rollicking rock&B single Jordan Hawkins kicks off his latest single in the throes of borderline histrionic emotional turmoil — as converted by a vocal performance that primarily trades in growls, rasp and impassioned falsetto.
—Christopher Claxton, Billboard, 10 Feb. 2025
Daisuke Wakabayashi, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2025
The collapse happened around 12:45 p.m. Monday, when about 150 feet of the wharf tore off into the bay as powerful swells barraged the structure.
—Jakob Rodgers, The Mercury News, 24 Dec. 2024
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Noun
In fact, just before the barrage of gunfire, his car wasn’t moving at all.
—Julie K. Brown, Miami Herald, 12 Feb. 2025
With a barrage of questions, rollicking rock&B single Jordan Hawkins kicks off his latest single in the throes of borderline histrionic emotional turmoil — as converted by a vocal performance that primarily trades in growls, rasp and impassioned falsetto.
—Christopher Claxton, Billboard, 10 Feb. 2025
Verb
Image At a media briefing on Tuesday, Jeju Air was barraged with questions about maintenance, including its practice of outsourcing maintenance to overseas specialists.
—Daisuke Wakabayashi, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2025
The collapse happened around 12:45 p.m. Monday, when about 150 feet of the wharf tore off into the bay as powerful swells barraged the structure.
—Jakob Rodgers, The Mercury News, 24 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for barrage
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Even without a storm, an Arctic blast is expected to plunge D.C. temperatures below freezing Wednesday and Thursday — and there's still a chance of midweek flurries.—
Anna Spiegel,
Axios,
18 Feb. 2025
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Then, the former lineman took to X to post a flurry of messages about his innocence.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
17 Feb. 2025
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This dominance has been driven by aggressively low prices and a relatively early roll-out of Wi-Fi 7 routers, perceived by some as a concerted effort to flood the US market.—
Simon Hill,
WIRED,
21 Feb. 2025
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One important factor: the high-water mark, which can indicate how badly a building flooded.—
Jeff Weiner,
Axios,
21 Feb. 2025
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Episode 2 of The Kardashians Season 6 will feature Kardashian attending the 2024 Met Gala, where she was bombarded by reporters asking about her appearance on the Netflix comedy special.—
Armando Tinoco,
Deadline,
6 Feb. 2025
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In essence, the firm allegedly bombarded ChatGPT with questions, tracked the answers, and used those results to train its own models.—
Michael Schuman,
The Atlantic,
4 Feb. 2025
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Sixty seconds later, Mbappe equalised with a stunning right-footed volley following a slick one-two with Marcus Thuram.—
The Athletic UK Staff,
The Athletic,
20 Feb. 2025
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There’s all sorts of different volleys in the air at this point.—
Vlada Gelman,
TVLine,
7 Feb. 2025
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To hear Trump tell it, Ukraine might as well be bombing its own cities and killing its own citizens.—
Susan B. Glasser,
The New Yorker,
20 Feb. 2025
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Biden briefly paused a shipment of bombs to Israel over concerns that they would be used on an area where refugees were told to flee, only to resume military aid after Israel bombed the area.—
Cybele Mayes-Osterman,
USA TODAY,
12 Feb. 2025
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The migrants, heading from San Diego to San Jose, hail from China, Afghanistan, India and Pakistan, among other countries.—
Kimmy Yam,
NBC News,
20 Feb. 2025
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Fellows specialize in music from genres from folk to hip hop, and hail from countries like South Korea, Italy and the United States.—
Isha Trivedi,
The Mercury News,
16 Feb. 2025
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But Trump had started questioning the cost of the contract in December 2016, after his election but before his inauguration.—
Chris Isidore,
CNN,
21 Feb. 2025
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In 2014, when the Universal parks broadened their focus to families with young children — Disney turf — Robert A. Iger, Disney’s chief executive, questioned whether Comcast was serious about the theme park business.—
Brooks Barnes,
New York Times,
21 Feb. 2025
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Tensions were heightened between Russia and Washington during Joe Biden’s four-year tenure at the White House, as Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine prompted a torrent of U.S.-led international sanctions on Moscow’s elite and economy and pitted Russia and its allies against the West.—
Holly Ellyatt,
CNBC,
25 Feb. 2025
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These exchanges made plain one of the challenges of running a superhero studio: Even the possibility of a new movie or a TV show featuring one of these characters — as a development projects that may never come to pass for a host of reasons — is enough to unleash a torrent of headlines.—
Adam B. Vary,
Variety,
24 Feb. 2025
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“Barrage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/barrage. Accessed 5 Mar. 2025.
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