battering
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The sceptics will say Barcola needs to start delivering in the Premier League too, and Florian Wirtz has been taking a bit of a battering for his performances.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
So they had; and so they did the transcontinental, battering it through the high passes of the Sierra Nevada and then, far more quickly, hurrying toward the head of the Union Pacific’s tracks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
The season premiere opened Saturday with Ramy Youssef reprising his role as New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, delivering an update on the nor’easter battering the East Coast before James Austin Johnson’s Trump arrived unexpectedly.
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026
Chip and memory stocks are rising, having taken a battering earlier this week due to calls for an AI slowdown.
From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026
A flutter caught Tendai’s attention: the mynah was battering the force screen in an attempt to get out the window.
From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer
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