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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

“All I know is, them bandy little legs of yours is every bit as old as mine.”

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison

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

This year the subdued bandies did march into the bowl singing "To hell with Yale" to the tune of O Tannenbaum, but that was all.

From Time Magazine Archive

A fire at night, or smoke by day, may be tempered with human ingenuity, but nature bandies the sound waves with her breath.

From Wings of the Wind by Harris, Credo Fitch

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 24, 2026

Many people would be offended by having this fact bandied about—especially when the Coke-can commentary is part of a larger discussion of the serious problems Haley tied to the size statement.

From Slate ● Jan. 15, 2026

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

From Salon ● Jan. 15, 2026

The term “gadfly” often is bandied about local government to describe those who never miss a public meeting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2025

My own mind was spinning from the ideas we had bandied back and forth so rapidly.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

It’s a spirit that is certainly related to, yet distinctly different from, the bawdy bandying that unfolds in Pasadena.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 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

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

Because it boomerangs back on the people who are bandying these terms about.

From Salon ● Nov. 15, 2015

In the centre of the plaza Caybigan, in his graceful, elastic pose, half-confident, half-wild, was bandying with three of the blue-shirted soldiers.

From Caybigan by Hopper, James