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"People bandy about those terms all the time, and it's ridiculous," he told the LA Times in May.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2025

“People bandy about those terms all the time, and it’s ridiculous,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2025

Self-identified light workers bandy about the concept of twin flames and profess that cumulus cloud tufts disguise space ships.

From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2023

"He wouldn't just bandy words about. It was on the inside, it was like a core inside him," she said.

From Reuters ● Nov. 25, 2023

He glowered at the chaplain with swollen fury for a moment, his good humor gone, and turned back toward the bar disgruntledly, rolling from side to side like a sailor on his short bandy legs.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

The script bandies about all three options, concluding that he’s closest to a chosen curse.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

Aukerman, now with a much brasher energy, starts needling Mantzoukas, who bandies jokes back across the net.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2024

It seems just like the kind of slightly surreal utterance Singh often bandies around in interviews, but Cornershop's rather wonderful new album literalises this simile.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 17, 2011

Couching his pacifist message in Gallic irony, Giraudoux bandies about the question of whether the Trojans should pledge their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor to hold onto Helen, the world's most beautiful woman.

From Time Magazine Archive

From the hips upward the Llanero is straight and well-proportioned; but his constant equitation curves and bandies his legs in a manner plainly visible whenever he attempts to walk.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 by Various

Then, that data slab feeds off other sources to grow into a full-on digital dossier of your consumer attributes, bandied from advertiser to vendor to advertiser.

From Slate ● May 3, 2026

In this case, league officials have bandied about several ideas to create more extra-base hits.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 24, 2026

Sir George is frequently bandied about as the so-called fifth Beatle.

From Salon ● Jan. 15, 2026

There is no name yet - Arise and The Collective have been bandied about.

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2025

My own mind was spinning from the ideas we had bandied back and forth so rapidly.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

It’s a spirit that is certainly related to, yet distinctly different from, the bawdy bandying that unfolds in Pasadena.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2022

Well, on this occasion, I have no hesitation in bandying away.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 10, 2022

CNN later found that Walker had been bandying this falsehood since as early as 2008, telling people that he graduated in the top 1% of his class.

From Salon ● Jun. 15, 2022

Journalists began bandying around the R-word this summer, after the Federal Reserve reported that industrial production had contracted for two straight quarters.

From Slate ● Oct. 5, 2019

Without that, education would waste itself in bandying arguments, and every thing would be lost if all teachers were not clever cavillers.

From French Classics by William Cleaver Wilkinson