buffeted

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Marooned on the backbenches, Rayner could only watch on as Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer was buffeted by a leadership crisis - and governed without her.

From BBC • May 14, 2026

In a country where lives have long been buffeted by crises, it is a snapshot of a people just trying to get through the day while their future hangs on forces beyond their control.

From BBC • Apr. 23, 2026

Others are trying to deal with volatile markets buffeted by war, tariff wars and uncertainty over the Federal Reserve’s interest-rate moves.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026

“The economy will continue to be buffeted by swings and shocks, but underlying activity will be anything but stagnant,” Pearce notes.

From Barron's • Apr. 16, 2026

There were only the sounds he had known all these years in Salem—the creaking of the old wooden house, buffeted by Atlantic winds.

From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham