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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

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

Queen Selyse's uncle was a keg of a man with thick arms and bandy legs.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

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

On entering the sacristy, they find the preacher, a jolly monk, surrounded by a dozen young rakes, with whom he bandies jokes more witty than wise.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 by Various

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

"Worrying", "freefall" and "rude awakening" were all bandied around in the immediate aftermath of the club's heaviest ever two-legged European defeat as new boss Wouter Vrankcen's tenure got off to a rocky start.

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 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

Many people would be offended by having this fact bandied about—especially when the Coke-can commentary is part of a larger discussion of the serious problems Haley tied to the size statement.

From Slate ● Jan. 15, 2026

The idea was bandied around a bit and apparently dropped.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

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

From Washington Post ● Oct. 10, 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

How much they are giving is kept largely secret because there is a fear that bandying about figures of millions of dollars would increase attacks on health workers.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 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

They had known no empty words, no bandying of foolish phrases.

From The Wolves of God And Other Fey Stories by Algernon Blackwood