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[ban-dee] / ˈbæn di /


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"People bandy about those terms all the time, and it's ridiculous," he told the LA Times in May.

From BBC Oct. 16, 2025

“People bandy about those terms all the time, and it’s ridiculous,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times May 9, 2025

Self-identified light workers bandy about the concept of twin flames and profess that cumulus cloud tufts disguise space ships.

From Salon Dec. 4, 2023

"He wouldn't just bandy words about. It was on the inside, it was like a core inside him," she said.

From Reuters Nov. 25, 2023

“Don’t bandy words with this one, Lord Snow, she’s too clever for the likes o’ you and me.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

The script bandies about all three options, concluding that he’s closest to a chosen curse.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 23, 2026

Aukerman, now with a much brasher energy, starts needling Mantzoukas, who bandies jokes back across the net.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 12, 2024

It seems just like the kind of slightly surreal utterance Singh often bandies around in interviews, but Cornershop's rather wonderful new album literalises this simile.

From The Guardian Feb. 17, 2011

Couching his pacifist message in Gallic irony, Giraudoux bandies about the question of whether the Trojans should pledge their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor to hold onto Helen, the world's most beautiful woman.

From Time Magazine Archive

On entering the sacristy, they find the preacher, a jolly monk, surrounded by a dozen young rakes, with whom he bandies jokes more witty than wise.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 by Various

"Worrying", "freefall" and "rude awakening" were all bandied around in the immediate aftermath of the club's heaviest ever two-legged European defeat as new boss Wouter Vrankcen's tenure got off to a rocky start.

From BBC Jul. 28, 2026

Then, that data slab feeds off other sources to grow into a full-on digital dossier of your consumer attributes, bandied from advertiser to vendor to advertiser.

From Slate May 3, 2026

In this case, league officials have bandied about several ideas to create more extra-base hits.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 24, 2026

Sir George is frequently bandied about as the so-called fifth Beatle.

From Salon Jan. 15, 2026

The idea was bandied around a bit and apparently dropped.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

CNN later found that Walker had been bandying this falsehood since as early as 2008, telling people that he graduated in the top 1% of his class.

From Salon Jun. 15, 2022

Journalists began bandying around the R-word this summer, after the Federal Reserve reported that industrial production had contracted for two straight quarters.

From Slate Oct. 5, 2019

How much they are giving is kept largely secret because there is a fear that bandying about figures of millions of dollars would increase attacks on health workers.

From BBC Jul. 8, 2019

The comedy, while unflinchingly honest and prone to bandying about such terms as “intracytoplasmic sperm injection” and “follitropin,” is never really about technology, though.

From Washington Post Oct. 3, 2018

You were right, because bandying sharp speeches was a great fault of mine.

From Waldfried A Novel by Auerbach, Berthold




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