punching bag

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Recent Examples of punching bag The robotic punching bag recognizes and escapes your strikes, swelling both strength and velocity of your punches. IEEE Spectrum, 20 Jan. 2023 True to his name, Rocky took up boxing at a young age, with Gellar proudly posting photos of him gloved-up at the punching bag in 2016. Sophie Dodd, Peoplemag, 20 Jan. 2023 Practice your strike and aim reflexes with this standing punching bag. John Thompson, Men's Health, 14 Nov. 2022 Social media, often a punching bag here, took more hits this year. Rob Pegoraro, USA TODAY, 8 Nov. 2022 See all Example Sentences for punching bag 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for punching bag
Noun
  • Our doctrine holds that money losers don’t belong in your portfolio.
    Jim Cramer, CNBC, 4 Feb. 2025
  • Where are the winners and losers of the coming great climate migration?
    Andrea Riquier, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The last two Backyard titles, 2014’s mobile-only Backyard Sports: Baseball 2015 and Backyard Sports: NBA Basketball 2015, were complete flops.
    Jake Lang, Rolling Stone, 7 Feb. 2025
  • What makes something a flop? Not the kind of flop that Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes is prone to do, but a flop in the world of advertising?
    Matthew Pittman, The Conversation, 6 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • An east wind will maintain a higher risk of rip currents along the coast, but overall, the holiday period will not see a washout.
    Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 23 Dec. 2024
  • On six of those instances, the games were postponed on back-to-back days, including a stretch of three consecutive days of washouts.
    Chris Kirschner, The Athletic, 22 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Perhaps predictably, loud quitters can suffer consequences too.
    Ashton Jackson, CNBC, 25 Jan. 2025
  • Imagine how much value creation is left on the table when summing the contributions from so many uninspiring efforts. Combating a Quitters' Day Culture Undoubtedly, leaders strongly influence whether a quitter's day culture emerges.
    Nate Bennett, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025

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“Punching bag.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/punching%20bag. Accessed 16 Feb. 2025.

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