bang away (at)

verb

Definition of bang away (at)next
as in to buffet

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  1. buffet
  2. barrage
  3. plaster
  4. cannon
  5. batter
  6. sack
  7. nuke
  8. loot
Verb
  • The decline was largely due to an adjustment in the valuation of his geothermal energy firm Barito Renewables Energy, which has been buffeted by stock volatility.
    Jane Ho, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
  • His security forces sought to crush a mass protest movement demanding democratic reforms as the Arab Spring buffeted the region.
    Victoria Beaule, ABC News, 8 Dec. 2024
Definition of buffet
Verb
  • Americans are also barraged with a one-sided view about the benefits of drugs.
    David Marks, Orlando Sentinel, 13 Nov. 2024
  • The Germans launched attacks on Bath, York and Exeter in April 1942; a smaller-scale aerial campaign known as the Baby Blitz barraged Britain between January and May 1944.
    Gregory Wakeman, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Nov. 2024
Definition of barrage
Verb
  • The posters and the key visual will be plastered across the German capital from late January.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Dec. 2024
  • If that wasn’t enough, his original partner and now ex, Zaina, came prepared to bury him with high-tech receipts — specifically, a QR code plastered onto her fingernail?!
    Laura Bradley, Vulture, 18 Dec. 2024
Definition of plaster
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
Definition of cannon
Verb
  • Thanks to them the attack mastermind escaped scot-free and soon those who that day desecrated the Capitol and battered the police will be pardoned and will leap snarling back into society.
    Gord Magill, Newsweek, 22 Dec. 2024
  • Even in America, its ancestral homeland, it is battered and bruised.
    Ben Ansell, NPR, 20 Dec. 2024
Definition of batter
Verb
  • O’Neil was sacked 26 times and took at least three sacks in five games.
    Jesse Temple, The Athletic, 30 Dec. 2024
  • Gregory Rousseau sacked Rodgers for this historic occasion time in his career, surpassing Brady for the most sacks allowed by a quarterback in official NFL records.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 29 Dec. 2024
Definition of sack
Verb
  • South Koreans, who would bear the brunt of U.S. retaliation, were skittish about a military option even when Kim was threatening to nuke them over the deployment of the missile defense system known as Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD.
    Daniel R. Russel, Foreign Affairs, 12 June 2018
  • The big picture: Manchin served as a serious check on President Biden's congressional plans — blocking efforts to nuke the filibuster and forcing a spending limit on the Build Back Better plan.
    Justin Green, Axios, 27 Oct. 2024
Definition of nuke
Verb
  • Many people may find their homes looted or new families living in them.
    Natasha Hall, Foreign Affairs, 9 Dec. 2024
  • Swiss zoologists, botanists, engineers, priests and nuns from missionary societies, merchants and rentier businesspeople, warlords and mercenaries ventured out to participate in plunder and looting as adjuncts or sidekicks of the stronger world powers and financiers.
    Percy Zvomuya, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2024
Definition of loot
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