Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cannoned
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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
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The refs weren’t calling many touch fouls so the Rebels aggressively blitzed the Longhorn ball-handlers from beginning to end.—
Cedric Golden,
Austin American Statesman,
13 Mar. 2026
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In Los Angeles, Minter’s defense was zone-heavy and rarely blitzed, yet finished 10th in sacks and second in preventing explosive passes.—
Dianna Russini,
New York Times,
9 Mar. 2026
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Moscow has bombarded Ukraine with nearly 60,000 Shaheds and similar systems.—
Cybele Mayes-Osterman,
USA Today,
21 Mar. 2026
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While Tehran is being bombarded, the regime’s security forces have been stationed at checkpoints across the city, searching civilians and confiscating their phones.—
Cora Engelbrecht,
New Yorker,
20 Mar. 2026
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Egypt’s pound posted its biggest single-day drop since a devaluation two years ago, as the Middle East’s most populous country continues to be buffeted by the shockwaves of the Iran war.—
Mirette Magdy,
Bloomberg,
8 Mar. 2026
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London/Hong Kong — The conflict raging in the Middle East will test the resilience of a global economy buffeted by tariffs and other trade disruptions over the past year.—
Hanna Ziady,
CNN Money,
5 Mar. 2026
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In an agricultural region battered by urbanization, climate change, and unjust occupation, the director chronicles a man’s desperate fight to preserve centuries-old ways of living.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
15 Mar. 2026
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The Archdiocese of Miami helped after Hurricane Melissa battered eastern Cuba as a Category 3 hurricane in October, leaving thousands of people without homes.—
Michael Butler,
Miami Herald,
14 Mar. 2026
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Gunmen ambushed and killed security personnel in Nigeria’s Plateau state.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
15 Mar. 2026
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Prosecutors allege the gunmen tracked Bowman to Los Angeles and ambushed him at a gas station near the Beverly Center, firing at least 18 rounds from multiple weapons, including a machine gun.—
Nancy Dillon,
Rolling Stone,
27 Feb. 2026
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Japanese warplanes attacked, torpedoed and bombed the ship, which caught fire before flooding and slowly sinking.—
Stephen Smith,
CBS News,
14 Mar. 2026
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On Friday, September 13, 1940, Nazi forces bombed Buckingham Palace in London.—
Manon Bischoff,
Scientific American,
13 Mar. 2026
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Thousands of passengers and crew were caught on vessels waylaid in ports in the UAE and Qatar.—
Maureen O'Hare,
CNN Money,
7 Mar. 2026
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In season two, the pair head north to Darwin to help solve the murder of Eddie’s former partner but get waylaid investigating a murder in a remote river town of Barra Creek.—
David Faris,
TheWeek,
4 Mar. 2026
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“Cannoned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cannoned. Accessed 21 Mar. 2026.
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