buffeted

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Marooned on the backbenches, Rayner could only watch on as Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer was buffeted by a leadership crisis - and governed without her.

From BBC • May 14, 2026

“The economy will continue to be buffeted by swings and shocks, but underlying activity will be anything but stagnant,” Pearce notes.

From Barron's • Apr. 16, 2026

"London has been buffeted by economic headwinds - we've had the war in Ukraine, Brexit, the pandemic, but also some issues specifically affecting the whole house-building sector in London," he says.

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026

A small open economy, New Zealand is often buffeted badly at times of elevated global uncertainty as it was a year ago when U.S. tariff policies upset international supply chains.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026

Nansi walks into the surf and lets his ankles be buffeted by the waves.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer