bandy
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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
I’m staggered at the stupidity of people who bandy around dangerous words without having looked them up in the dictionary.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2024
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
‘Do not bandy words in your insolence with the Mouth of Sauron!’ he cried.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
The script bandies about all three options, concluding that he’s closest to a chosen curse.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
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
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
They had a net to catch penguins, a club like to our bandies, and wooden darts.
From History of the Buccaneers of America by James Burney
The problem for the market, he said, is that once such numbers are bandied about, any significant capex shortfall will badly damage sentiment toward the beneficiaries of such spending, particularly chip and data-center equipment makers.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026
In this case, league officials have bandied about several ideas to create more extra-base hits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 24, 2026
So they bandied together, booked Barcelona and have forbidden access to all independent media to ensure their privacy.
From BBC ● Jan. 26, 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
As if to answer that question, his craft shot forward again and he was pitched, jerked, and bandied about by the writhing, charging stream.
From "Abel's Island" by William Steig
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
Well, on this occasion, I have no hesitation in bandying away.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 10, 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
Because it boomerangs back on the people who are bandying these terms about.
From Salon ● Nov. 15, 2015
Literary men have frequently ventured into this bandying about of strange talk.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 by Various
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