Both Uses
onslaught
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Nineteen Minutes
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- His muscles were still formidable, and visible enough beneath his jacket to stop the onslaught of any monster jokes incurred by his last name.
Chpt 1 *onslaught = powerful attack; or sudden and enormous amount of something that must be handled
- And then, like any force of nature, you had to brace yourself for another onslaught before things went back to normal.
Chpt 1
Definitions:
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(1)
(onslaught) a powerful attack
or:
a sudden and enormous amount of something that must be handled -- such as trouble, people or communications - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)