bang away (at)

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bang away (at)
Verb
  • The initial plan of using a hoist to pluck them from the wing proved too dangerous, as the the smallest girl was being buffeted and blown around by the wind created by the helicopter, said Lt. Col. Brendon Holbrook, commander of the 207th Aviation Regiment.
    CBS News, CBS News, 26 Mar. 2025
  • Despite the warm oranges radiating across the sky, the summit was freezing, with buffeting wind gusts.
    Dina Mishev Max Whittaker, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Just as often as not, what results from this impulse to lightly fictionalize a recent news story is an overly straightforward telling of the same facts we’ve been barraged with already.
    Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Mar. 2025
  • Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) tried to dismiss the controversy when he was barraged by television camera crews outside his office in the Dirksen Building on Tuesday morning.
    Alexander Bolton, The Hill, 22 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Pennoyer added gentle vaults to the sides of the entry gallery’s plastered ceiling, which Cathey then had lacquered, commissioning églomisé artist Miriam Ellner to decorate the glass panels of the central lantern.
    Andrew Sessa, Architectural Digest, 2 Apr. 2025
  • Inside a former cotton grading warehouse, where the walls are plastered with old concert posters and heavily graffitied with Sharpie signatures, the audience is buzzing with anticipation for the night’s show.
    Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 29 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • His 79th-minute header from Andy Robertson’s free kick beat goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma but cannoned off the upright and across the face of the goal with no Liverpool player able to follow up, and the Premier League leaders ended up losing the last-16 tie in a penalty shootout.
    Andy Jones, The Athletic, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Mousley vividly remembers his first Villa memory, describing the Paul Scholes’ volley that cannoned off the underside of the crossbar and into the net.
    Jacob Tanswell, The Athletic, 18 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • The coup and ensuing conflict has battered its health infrastructure, leaving it ill-equipped to deal with major natural disasters.
    Eve Brennan, CNN Money, 3 Apr. 2025
  • Beryl, Helene and Milton, which battered large swaths of the U.S., were all Atlantic storms, while John, which caused extensive damage in the Mexican state of Guerrero, was an eastern Pacific storm.
    Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 3 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Also sacked Thursday was Gen. Timothy D. Haugh, who led both the NSA and U.S. Cyber Command, and his deputy, Wendy Noble, who has reportedly been reassigned within the Pentagon.
    Colin Meyn, The Hill, 4 Apr. 2025
  • He was sacked a whopping 68 times, with the next highest being C.J. Stroud with 52.
    Jason D. Greenblatt, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • And if Netflix or any other streaming service has gotten stale, try nuking your view history and starting over.
    Adam Clark Estes, Vox, 20 Mar. 2025
  • The art page of the current Marvel artists where these images were found has been nuked, but they are being endlessly replicated and spread across the internet at this point.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Along with human rights the wealth of Iran is being looted.
    Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2025
  • The location of the site has not been announced due to concerns about looting.
    Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 25 Mar. 2025
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“Bang away (at).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bang%20away%20%28at%29. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.

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