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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

"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

I realize that’s an overblown term that the media likes to bandy about as if it had some sort of cosmic significance.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 3, 2022

‘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

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

Also, there are admirers of M. Bouguereau and of Sir Marcus Stone, there are Italian Futurists and members of the New English Art Club, with whom one bandies no words.

From Since Cézanne by Clive Bell

Then, that data slab feeds off other sources to grow into a full-on digital dossier of your consumer attributes, bandied from advertiser to vendor to advertiser.

From Slate ● May 3, 2026

“Accessibility” isn’t the term bandied about; “adventure” is.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2026

Among the proposals bandied about was Pakistan hosting a meeting between U.S. and Iranian senior leaders, the officials said, adding that the U.S. quickly warmed to that idea.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 24, 2026

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

From Salon ● Jan. 15, 2026

Arlington Park in Chicago also bandied around the idea.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

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

Comedy, as practiced by Molière, Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw, provides a forum for the bandying of difficult and dangerous ideas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2017

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

From Salon ● Nov. 15, 2015

People who usually kept at a timid distance from everything in the shape of a uniform, were now bandying jests with army lieutenants and police captains.

From The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia by Abraham Cahan