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Meanings of carpet bombing in English

An extensive and systematic bombing intended to devastate a large target.

Usage of carpet bombing in English
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They applied carpet bombing and an overwhelmingly better-equipped and better-trained conscript army.
Reuters
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It's the spray-and-pray approach, not so much sniping as carpet bombing.
Wired
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But, Harden says, the Americans came back with a vengeance with carpet bombing.
Radio NZ
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Massive carpet bombing of Dresden, of Coventry, of Hiroshima, of Bristol.
The new yorker
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But increasingly, Netflix's development process appears to be less precision strike and more carpet bombing.
Wired
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Expect carpet bombing if things don't look up soon.
Stars rain down
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They were carpet bombing, drones leveling the town from thirty thousand feet in the air.
Sea of Rust
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We'll be facing massive troop incursions, this wretched space warship bombardment, aircraft carpet bombing, artillery.
The Naked God
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I don't know why they're carpet bombing.
Sea of Rust
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I take multiple products because multivitamins are the equivalent of carpet bombing that doesn't really hit the target.
Wired
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I was carpet bombing Antarctic Recessionists, swooping low, driving the suckers further and further along the ice floe.
Wastelands
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Denmark's carpet bombing of Ireland's World Cup dreams last night will dampen the nation's mood con(...)
The Irish Times
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Moscow has pursued policies in Syria that have less to do with fighting Isis than with carpet bombing civilians.
The Guardian
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Alexander wondered whether conventional carpet bombing of an area wouldn't be as effective and less sinister than an atomic bomb.
Red inferno: 1945
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We're talking carpet bombing.
Sea of Rust
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It's more like a carpet bombing, said Fadi al-Dairi of Hand In Hand for Syria, a UK-based group which delivers aid inside Syria.
Reuters