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They withstood the onslaught and counterattacked.onslaught = powerful attack
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We expect an onslaught of attack ads the last weeks prior to voting.onslaught = powerful attack; or a large number of something that is difficult to handle
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Her campaign did not survive an onslaught of attack ads.onslaught = powerful attack
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The referee stopped the fight after an unanswered onslaught two minutes into the third round.onslaught = a powerful attack (in this case, many punches)
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When I finally do come to my senses, I lie still, waiting for the next onslaught of imagery. (source)onslaught = powerful attack; or sudden and enormous amount of something that must be handled
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It hurled Ender out of the way of the rest of the first onslaught, though he still wasn't getting any closer to the door. (source)onslaught = powerful attack
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His fists were half cocked, as if expecting an onslaught from both of us. (source)onslaught = powerful attack
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These men, a picked striking force of gallants, resumed the onslaughts of the previous afternoon.† (source)onslaughts = powerful attacks; or sudden and enormous amount of things that must be handled
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But he was not even halfway to Hagrid when he saw it happen: Hagrid vanished amongst the spiders, and with a great scurrying, a foul swarming movement, they retreated under the onslaught of spells, Hagrid buried in their midst. (source)onslaught = powerful attack
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His keen onslaughts against slavery, in fact, carry the conviction of a man of far greater moral force than the pre-presidential Lincoln ever revealed in action.† (source)onslaughts = powerful attacks; or sudden and enormous amount of things that must be handled
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As if the taunting gave Thomas a sudden burst of courage, he walked over to the lit door, ignoring the creaking floorboards and laughter downstairs—ignoring the onslaught of words he didn't understand, suppressing the dreadful feelings they induced. (source)onslaught = sudden and enormous amount of something
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But one mark of a writer's greatness is that different minds can find in him different inspirations; and Professor Erlin, who hated the Prussians, gave his enthusiastic admiration to Goethe because his works, Olympian and sedate, offered the only refuge for a sane mind against the onslaughts of the present generation.† (source)onslaughts = powerful attacks; or sudden and enormous amount of things that must be handled
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Breton spring, and a great onslaught of damp invades the coast. (source)onslaught = powerful attack; or sudden and enormous amount of something that must be handled
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—For over their ale men also told that of these folk-horrors fewer she wrought, onslaughts of evil, after she went, gold-decked bride, to the brave young prince, atheling haughty, and Offa's hall o'er the fallow flood at her father's bidding safely sought, where since she prospered, royal, throned, rich in goods, fain of the fair life fate had sent her, and leal in love to the lord of warriors.† (source)onslaughts = powerful attacks; or sudden and enormous amount of things that must be handled
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She was armed to the teeth for any onslaught of sympathy. (source)onslaught = powerful attack
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The disease resumed its onslaughts.† (source)onslaughts = powerful attacks; or sudden and enormous amount of things that must be handled
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