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Record-high beef prices will continue to wallop U.S. consumers this summer as drought conditions and the resurgence of an invasive pest are the latest obstacles to increasing cattle herds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

They also wallop small businesses, which typically pay tax at their state’s individual rate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026

Those primal, instinctive bonds pack a wallop when they're severed.

From Salon ● May 10, 2025

Even so, the 10th-placed Seagulls are one of those teams where just when you think about writing them off, they will come up with a performance and wallop someone.

From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2025

These Amoses might look like a bunch of cream puffs but if she was anything like Todd I bet she could pack a real wallop.

From "Bud, Not Buddy" by Christopher Paul Curtis

There he wallops American culture in all its manifestations.

From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2026

By using the “Net Rating” metric from college basketball stats guru Ken Pomeroy, it’s possible to measure how thoroughly a team wallops its opponents on both ends of the floor, adjusted for strength of schedule.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 15, 2026

He wallops his first ball to the boundary and then promptly heads back to the pavilion.

From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2024

As another winter storm wallops the West, the mountains will receive much-needed snow, but states including Oregon will also see significant freezing rain on Saturday.

From New York Times ● Jan. 13, 2024

The piano rills through its finishing measures, and then the static wallops back.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

When Dornan ran again in 1998, with volunteers vowing to pursue any election irregularities, Sanchez walloped him, and he was swept into the dustbin of political history.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026

Last October's Hurricane Melissa – the strongest in Jamaica's history – walloped the island's agricultural sector, while it was still recovering from Hurricane Beryl the year before.

From BBC ● May 31, 2026

Clement and the law firms walloped the government.

From Slate ● May 15, 2026

Consumers are cutting back on how much they’re spending to fill up their gas tanks these days, and most household budgets are still getting walloped by higher prices.

From Barron's ● May 7, 2026

The reader of Unweaving the Rainbow opens the book and is walloped with a reminder of the most dreadful fact we know, and on its heels a paradoxical elaboration.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

He can get revenge by walloping the next pitch for a hit.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

The men traded a series of incendiary, insulting songs, but the one that endures is Lamar’s “Not Like Us”—spooky, walloping, chart-topping, Grammy-winning.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026

Her team had made her point over the previous two hours, walloping the Nittany Lions on the way to a seventh straight victory.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2025

Marseille climbed provisionally top of the French Ligue 1 on Friday after walloping woeful Nice 5-1 in a one-sided local derby with fireworks on and off the pitch.

From Barron's ● Nov. 21, 2025

But the next morning, Brougham pointed out again in his column that “those walloping sophomores of mine” had looked mighty fresh to him at the end of three miles, the varsity not so much.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown