smashing
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Nonfarm payrolls surged by 172,000, smashing expectations of just 88,000, while the U-3 unemployment rate held steady at 4.3%.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 6, 2026
And it was a smashing success, not only politically, but substantively as well.
From Salon • May 14, 2026
Mr Justice Johnson told the jurors that if the defendants believed that they had been morally justified in smashing up Elbit's property, that would not be a "lawful excuse".
From BBC • May 12, 2026
Earnings per share surged to $0.42, nearly doubling last year’s $0.22 and smashing expectations of around $0.08.
From Barron's • May 8, 2026
All day at school, when Liyana described the scene of Sitti’s bathroom smashing, the chips of ceramic and waterlogged rooms, her classmates shrugged.
From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye
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