as in to flood
to cover with a flood
water from the overflowing bathtub inundated the bathroom floor
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Recent Examples of inundate
Especially when we’ve been inundated by warnings, incessant and unnerving, about peri-and postmenopausal angst and physical decay.
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Valerie Monroe, Allure, 25 Dec. 2024
Florence Pugh teases 'bizarre but pure' father-daughter relationship in Marvel's Thunderbolts (exclusive)
After wearing a sheer pink gown to a Valentino haute couture show in Rome, Pugh says she was inundated with cruel comments scrutinizing her body.
—Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 17 Dec. 2024
Sea-level rise is expected to compound storm surge, inundating communities further inland.
—Jack Prator, Orlando Sentinel, 30 Dec. 2024
Other spikes in reports of suspicious bags or items happen in the wake of a major incident, such as the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, when authorities were inundated by reports from the newly vigilant public.
—Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2024
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Valerie Monroe, Allure, 25 Dec. 2024
Florence Pugh teases 'bizarre but pure' father-daughter relationship in Marvel's Thunderbolts (exclusive)
After wearing a sheer pink gown to a Valentino haute couture show in Rome, Pugh says she was inundated with cruel comments scrutinizing her body.
—Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 17 Dec. 2024
Sea-level rise is expected to compound storm surge, inundating communities further inland.
—Jack Prator, Orlando Sentinel, 30 Dec. 2024
Other spikes in reports of suspicious bags or items happen in the wake of a major incident, such as the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, when authorities were inundated by reports from the newly vigilant public.
—Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inundate
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The point, as is true in all politics, is to flood the zone with damaging stories about your opponents.Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2025
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Aid would flood Gaza as residents returned to what is left of their homes, and the Israeli military pulls back from the major population centers, according to the mediators.Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 16 Jan. 2025
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But that blissful image has been ruptured in recent days as parts of Los Angeles were engulfed in flames, reducing homes and businesses across the sprawling metropolis to smoldering heaps of ash and rubble, most calamitously in the Pacific Palisades and the community of Altadena.Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 15 Jan. 2025
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As Southern California continues to reel from the devastating fires that have engulfed entire Los Angeles County neighborhoods, the question on everyone’s mind is what sparked them and who is to blame.Barnini Chakraborty, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 15 Jan. 2025
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This lack of collaboration is untenable in the current reality where the sea of fast-moving, stealth attackers threatens to overwhelm the dike entirely.Jonathan Fischbein, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
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While liberals run the country from the Washington bureaucracy out to the grassroots, conservatives run the country by arousing the grassroots to overwhelm the resistance of Washington.Newt Gingrich, Orlando Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2025
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The proliferation of point solutions—tools that solve only one or two specific pain points—has left organizations drowning in software.Joshua Siler, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
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While getting these hands-on pics, the bustle of the Vegas Strip didn’t drown out my music or prevent me from hearing my colleague Antonio G. Di Benedetto’s photo cues.Victoria Song, The Verge, 7 Jan. 2025
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“Inundate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inundate. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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