bang away (at)

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Verb
  • More than 250 flights were delayed at Denver International Airport on Sunday as a third day of below-freezing weather and snow buffeted the city.
    Lauren Penington, The Denver Post, 19 Jan. 2025
  • Snow storms buffeted the Northeastern United States, and India and Japan suffered from severe famines as crops failed.
    David Szondy, New Atlas, 19 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Patrons aspiring to ride the Hulk rollercoaster at the Universal Studios theme park in Orlando are barraged by signs warning them to place anything not attached to their bodies in a locker next to the ride.
    Christian Schneider, National Review, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Image At a media briefing on Tuesday, Jeju Air was barraged with questions about maintenance, including its practice of outsourcing maintenance to overseas specialists.
    Daisuke Wakabayashi, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • The policy specifically calls out search-manipulating techniques such as listing multiple extensions that provide the same experience or plastering extension descriptions with loosely related or unrelated keywords.
    Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 8 Jan. 2025
  • The Parental Advisory sticker plastered onto the video is edited to have a timestamp of 9:30 at the top, indicating when the music was set to drop.
    Olivier Lafontant, Pitchfork, 8 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • The last of them came on Saturday, a storybook goal that involved slaloming between three defenders and then cannoning a fierce, rising shot past three more, as well as the goalkeeper.
    Rory Smith, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2023
  • The cost per shot is cheap, as the ammunition is technically just electricity generated on the spot and not a missile or even cannon round built in a factory and shipped to the battlefield.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 19 Mar. 2020
Verb
  • The Lions, simply battered by health issues on defense, are just the second 15-win team to not win a single playoff game in the Super Bowl era.
    Chris Branch, The Athletic, 19 Jan. 2025
  • Tekashi attempted to ward the men off but was eventually stomped out and left in the facility battered and bloodied.
    Marc Griffin, VIBE.com, 17 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • He was not sacked in the game, and Washington was 3-for-4 on fourth-down conversion attempts.
    Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Jalen Hurts has been sacked on 18 percent of pass plays.
    Michael Salfino, The Athletic, 23 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Such a move would be akin to nuking the legislative filibuster, the new Republican leader said.
    Ross O'Keefe, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 6 Jan. 2025
  • The Anyone but You star portrays quarterback Russ Holliday, who disguises himself as a fictional person and walks onto a struggling football team in the South after bad behavior nukes his college career.
    Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • With the cease-fire between Israel and Hamas taking effect, aid convoys seemed to enter Gaza without issues, and no attempts at stealing or looting the aid were reported on Sunday or Monday, according to Juliette Touma, a spokeswoman for the main U.N. agency that assists Palestinians.
    Hiba Yazbek, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2025
  • Residents remain barred from certain parts of Los Angeles, as authorities work to bring back utilities (and worry about looting).
    Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2025
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