"Carpet bombing" is a phrase used to describe a military strategy where large areas are continuously bombed with no precise targets in mind. It involves dropping many bombs over a wide area, intended to cause damage and destruction on a large scale.
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- This is one of the main problems when you start carpet bombing new taxes. (owenbigland.com)
- Here's a very small sample of carpet bombing all the free promotional channels we found on Twitter (over 30). (okdork.com)
- Forget carpet bombing with insecticides or spending millions to devise effective human vaccines: Australian scientists have concocted a novel way to combat dengue fever, a deadly insectborne infection that sickens up to 100 million people every year. (discovermagazine.com)
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