Word: bombarded
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...York State’s thinnest county, but the culinary temptations are everywhere. Countless pizza places leave the door open for the smell of fresh bread to waft outside, as thick slices with countless toppings sit on display. In Times Square, bright flashing ads of M&Ms bombard tourists as they gape upward, extra-large sodas in hand...
...Playing a more direct brand of soccer, the Crimson dominated the final exchanges of the first half and continued to bombard the Seawolves’ goal after the break...
...have a mandate anymore? It's not that. It's that our administration is so stymied and paralyzed because of a political game that has been chosen to be played by critics who have discovered loopholes in the ethics reform that I championed that allows them to continually, continually bombard the state with frivolous ethics-violation charges, with lawsuits, with these fishing expeditions. We win the lawsuits, we win the ethics charges, we win all that - but it comes at such great cost. The distraction, the waste of time and money, the public's time and money - it's insane...
...trouble with the idea is that Twitter users may not see the service as a commercial enterprise that should be used to bombard them with advertising. Users of MySpace and Facebook have already staged revolts against the services being used to solicit them to buy products and services. People who use Twitter to communicate with friends may feel the same way. If the service becomes a place where conversations among users are interrupted by marketing messages, Twitter could actually begin to lose users. (Read: "Your Facebook Relationship Status: It's Complicated...
...another thing? If you’re going to bombard me with e-mails, at least have the decency to change the subject line from “Please FWD to your houselists...