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
The “buyout” spamming of civil servants continues, and the emails read like travel brochures: Kick back, relax, let Musk Cruise Lines take care of your every need.
From Slate ● Feb. 3, 2025
"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
The illiterate message can send itself automatically, as image or as speech, as video or as Internet spamming, whatever best hits its human target, to people's addresses.
From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin
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