Fusillade:
- a simultaneous or continuous discharge of firearms.
- a general discharge or outpouring of anything.
a fusillade of questions. [Dictionary.com]
Noted in “After Pretti killing, Trump administration faces broadest backlash since Jan. 6,” Steve Benen, Maddowblog:
But after the latest shooting death of an American civilian at the hands of federal agents and the subsequent fusillade of absurd lies from administrations officials, the number of Republicans expressing varying degrees of discomfort with the official party line has reached unusually high levels.
I’ve never looked it up before.
