spamming
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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“How much money did you waste spamming Californians? Do you know how many hundreds of millions of dollars you wasted?”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 14, 2026
“It will discourage companies from spamming the system and provide certainty to employers who actually need to bring the top-tier talent from overseas,” Rogers said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 11, 2026
"My followers began spamming 'return the moai' on Wikipedia, and then the comments section of the British Museum Instagram was full of people posting 'return the moai'," he said in one recent clip.
From BBC • Feb. 18, 2024
Board members told the high court that the accounts were maintained without government funding, and the parents were blocked after spamming the accounts.
From Washington Times • Oct. 31, 2023
Some Web sites, for example, send out mass email advertisements containing the site's URL, the spamming process we have described above.
From Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) Ruling by United States District Court For The Eastern District Of Pennsylvania
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