bang away (at)

verb

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

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bang away (at)
  1. buffet
  2. barrage
  3. plaster
  4. cannon
  5. batter
  6. sack
  7. nuke
  8. loot
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  • Zoom in: Ohio has been buffeted by unusual extreme weather events in 2024.
    Sam Allard, Axios, 16 Oct. 2024
  • Escalating crises Over the last six years, Boeing has been buffeted by one problem after another, ranging from embarrassing to tragic.
    Chris Isidore, CNN, 15 Oct. 2024
Definition of buffet
Verb
  • Stretch, toss, turn, or sit up, and the alarm clock will barrage you with coin pickup sound effects from Super Mario Odyssey, or splat sounds from Splatoon 3.
    WIRED, WIRED, 9 Oct. 2024
  • These scientists are losing funding, watching their research centers close down, and getting barraged with subpoenas.
    F.D. Flam, The Mercury News, 17 Oct. 2024
Definition of barrage
Verb
  • The workshop, where prisoners pack anti-dandruff shampoo and instant coffee for a small salary, is plastered with motivational quotes from luminaries such as Steve Jobs and Nelson Mandela.
    Rebecca Wright, CNN, 19 Oct. 2024
  • The vehicle’s exterior is plastered with laminated prints of his poetry, manifestos, and diatribes against cell phones and pesticides.
    Evan Malmgren, Harper's Magazine, 21 Aug. 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
  • Owen’s Blanche, battered by life, looked in desperate need of a good night’s sleep.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2024
  • The flash floods battered regions like Barrio de la Torre in Valencia, where narrow streets became lethal watercourses.
    Nina Turner, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024
Definition of batter
Verb
  • The Rams sacked him seven times in their overtime win last Sunday.
    Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 16 Nov. 2024
  • The Titans’ best chance to score was snuffed out near the end of the first half when Mountain View’s Kaitlyn Liddle roared in to sack sophomore quarterback Kelsey Peterson.
    Patrick Saunders, The Denver Post, 2 Nov. 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
  • Recent decades have seen the repatriation of Khmer artifacts from abroad, some of which were looted in the 1970s during the period of violence and instability under the communist Khmer Rouge regime, per the Associated Press.
    Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Since 2022, the detainees are believed to have looted millions of euros and run up a similar amount in property damage, from 2022 to 2024, Europol said.
    Sophie Tanno, CNN, 27 Oct. 2024
Definition of loot
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