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The phrase "assailed with" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe being attacked or overwhelmed by something, often in a figurative sense, such as emotions or challenges.
Example: "She felt assailed with doubts as she prepared for the big presentation."
Alternatives: "bombarded with" or "overwhelmed by".
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Soon after, he is assailed with heated rods.
In fact, the project was assailed with criticisms.
The unaffordable principle of universal welfare has been assailed with a means-test for child benefit.
She was handclapped and booed and assailed with cries of "get on with it".
He also began his voluptuously messy Red Paintings, chaotic collages assailed with a glorious repertoire of drips, splashes and smears.
As our country prepared for war, we found ourselves assailed with pro-administration propaganda from the corporate media.
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The King of Macedon could not remain inactive; he assailed Athens with his navy and with some infantry.
Stevenson suffered ill-health all his life, and was being dosed with an experimental drug at the time when his "brownies" assailed him with the story of the good doctor and his evil other self.
He also assailed Mr. Silver with subtle humor for taking credit for actions not yet agreed to.
A panel of senators assailed him with pointed questions, but he was a formidable interlocutor — slippery, aloof, and impeccably prepared — and no senator landed a blow.
Writing in 1937, the future poet laureate John Betjeman assailed Slough with lines that achieved immortality: Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough!
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