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"If you live in a small house, you don't want all this clobber."

From BBC Jun. 4, 2026

At least they don’t reach out to clobber nearby cars.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 18, 2026

But as the storm continued to clobber the state, worse impacts were certainly possible, Mr. Ortiz said.

From New York Times Feb. 4, 2024

But for UW to take pressure off its precarious pass defense, the Huskies must consistently clobber opponents up front.

From Seattle Times Sep. 3, 2023

My other mother loved me to pieces, but she stood ready to clobber me if I moved.

From "Facing the Lion" by Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton and Herman Viola

Game 3, with Muncy back in the lineup, he clobbers the Giants, again.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 14, 2023

Popular media hasembraced the terms, using them when a snowstorm clobbers an area that usually gets little snow.

From Scientific American Nov. 11, 2022

That said, there are some things you can do to maintain good credit or to minimize the damage if an unexpected expense clobbers your budget.

From Seattle Times Sep. 2, 2021

Mickelson’s not quite out of it, three back of Mattiace as he clobbers his drive on the 15th.

From Golf Digest Mar. 25, 2020

That line of hers clobbers me over and over.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

This has eased some of the regulatory risk that has clobbered tobacco shares since the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 9, 2026

Meanwhile, food prices have jumped by 40% in just a few years, which has clobbered people's finances.

From BBC Jun. 23, 2026

The contracts clobbered the stocks of state-licensed bookmakers last year.

From Barron's Jan. 31, 2026

The shares of UnitedHealth, Humana and other health insurers were clobbered on Tuesday after a preliminary payment proposal for Medicare Advantage fell way short of analyst expectations.

From MarketWatch Jan. 27, 2026

“What’s this?” said Scooter, drawing back and almost getting clobbered.

From "Crash" by Jerry Spinelli

Apple finally overthrew Nvidia to reclaim the title of the world’s largest company by market capitalization, underscoring the dramatic degree to which the iPhone maker’s stock is clobbering the broader technology universe.

From MarketWatch Jul. 27, 2026

Ford’s secret project had an ambitious goal: to figure out how to make electric vehicles in the U.S. that could compete with the Chinese models clobbering competitors globally.

From The Wall Street Journal May 5, 2026

He put himself on the Ashes radar by clobbering 183 for Australia A during a red-ball series against Sri Lanka A in Darwin this year, with his form continuing in the Sheffield Shield.

From Barron's Nov. 5, 2025

Myers, however, was all over it, clobbering a no-doubt grand slam to left that stunned Chavez Ravine into silence.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 29, 2025

They blew past two of the plesios, Missy clobbering one with her tail and broadsiding the other, sending it and its riders collapsing into the water.

From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older




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