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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

Ser Boros was an ugly man with a broad chest and short, bandy legs.

From "A Game of Thrones" 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

They had a net to catch penguins, a club like to our bandies, and wooden darts.

From History of the Buccaneers of America by James Burney

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

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

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

From Salon ● Jan. 15, 2026

Arlington Park in Chicago also bandied around the idea.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

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

The comedy, while unflinchingly honest and prone to bandying about such terms as “intracytoplasmic sperm injection” and “follitropin,” is never really about technology, though.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 3, 2018

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

There was here some good-natured bandying of words, and old Jack was recommended to try the bridle himself, just to see, as they said, how it felt and how it fitted.

From The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer A Page of Past History for the Use of the Children of To-day by Richard Clynton