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Consequently, any great jump in spending by hyperscalers may clobber stocks that carry great weighting in the market.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026

"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

“I honestly don’t know,” Freddie Freeman said when asked about Ohtani’s ability to consistently clobber the ball.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2024

“That’s why you’re asking all these questions. You’re not worried about Maya, you’re worried about the baby. God, I’m so going to get a five on this AP test. I’m going to clobber it.”

From "Far from the Tree" by Robin Benway

But if it clobbers Oklahoma State and Oregon struggles vs.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 28, 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

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

Malnutrition clobbers the immune system, leaving the victim more prone to infections and more likely to die from them.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 6, 2017

That line of hers clobbers me over and over.

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

The more people on the slope, the greater your chance of getting clobbered by a reckless cowboy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

He clobbered the first ball over the covers for six, then scampered back for two unlikely twos.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

That team held a players-only meeting after falling to 0-3… then got clobbered, 27-0, by the Houston Oilers in Week 4.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

And in Asia, Seoul's Kospi, the poster child of the AI tech rally, lost more than five percent as chip titans SK hynix and Samsung were clobbered at least seven percent.

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026

Mom threw her hands up and held the books in place, saving both of us from getting clobbered.

From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini

“The Last House” and “The Whisper Man” have both outperformed “Don’t Say Good Luck,” with “The Whisper Man” clobbering both in the number of hours viewed after just a few days on the streamer.

From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026

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

The shift of manufacturing jobs to less expensive states in the South, or to Asia, started clobbering many Midwestern factory towns in the 1970s.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 25, 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

But once inside his truck he felt so unfairly cheated that he damn near broke a finger clobbering the dashboard.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols


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