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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

I’m staggered at the stupidity of people who bandy around dangerous words without having looked them up in the dictionary.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2024

"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

I realize that’s an overblown term that the media likes to bandy about as if it had some sort of cosmic significance.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 3, 2022

‘Do not bandy words in your insolence with the Mouth of Sauron!’ he cried.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

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

This year the subdued bandies did march into the bowl singing "To hell with Yale" to the tune of O Tannenbaum, but that was all.

From Time Magazine Archive

He favours the tightest, thin-soled, pointed brown shoes, crops his hair, shaves his cheeks and chin clean, walks with a self-consciousness, and ogles and bandies repartee whenever he passes a maja.

From The Story of Seville by C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine) Hartley

The problem for the market, he said, is that once such numbers are bandied about, any significant capex shortfall will badly damage sentiment toward the beneficiaries of such spending, particularly chip and data-center equipment makers.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026

Even before the Chronicle published its article, once the privately bandied rumors were suddenly out in the open, you could almost hear the sound of a dam bursting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 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

So they bandied together, booked Barcelona and have forbidden access to all independent media to ensure their privacy.

From BBC ● Jan. 26, 2026

Phrases like “Chemise to you” would never be bandied between her and Frith for instance.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

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

Comedy, as practiced by Molière, Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw, provides a forum for the bandying of difficult and dangerous ideas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2017

An administration confident about conducting interventions in the economy should demonstrate care when bandying numbers.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 10, 2017

Because it boomerangs back on the people who are bandying these terms about.

From Salon ● Nov. 15, 2015

Lionel bounded in his saddle at this taunt on his riding; but there was no time for bandying words of anger; the roar of rushing water, and the misty foam, proclaimed the torrent near.

From The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. I (of II) by Charles James Lever