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  • verb Present participle of barrage.

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Examples

  • In an effort to deter terrorist organizations from barraging the Jewish state with rockets and artillery shells, the U.S.

    Sigurd Neubauer: How President Obama Grew to Become Israel's Best Friend Sigurd Neubauer 2010

  • Either do I fess up and acknowledge this, or construct an ideology that will just keep barraging people.

    Andrew Sullivan: Dishing It Out Daily For A Decade 2010

  • The sight of numerous regions declaring sovereignty and barraging Moscow with demands was unsettlingly familiar to those who had just watched the Soviet Union fall apart.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • A few years later, having impressed some of his fellow hip-hop-loving friends, he assumed the role of the precocious teenager and started barraging artists with beats online.

    Raising the Roof on a New Sound Andy Battaglia 2011

  • The sight of numerous regions declaring sovereignty and barraging Moscow with demands was unsettlingly familiar to those who had just watched the Soviet Union fall apart.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • "In an era of fast and easy food barraging us from page and screen, why is Charcutepalooza such a compelling idea?" he asked by e-mail.

    Food bloggers' charcuterie project goes viral Bonnie S. Benwick 2011

  • This is a start, but the President has been far too quiet about the fierce campaign of lies that opponents of health care reform have been barraging the public with over the last month.

    Obama slams 'outlandish rumors' on health care plan 2009

  • Even after the door closes, I can still hear Charlie barraging my mother with excited questions about criminals as they make their way down the hallway to the elevators.

    Left Neglected Lisa Genova 2011

  • The sight of numerous regions declaring sovereignty and barraging Moscow with demands was unsettlingly familiar to those who had just watched the Soviet Union fall apart.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • Even after the door closes, I can still hear Charlie barraging my mother with excited questions about criminals as they make their way down the hallway to the elevators.

    Left Neglected Lisa Genova 2011

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