bashing
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McCartney's father Jim infused the house with music, bashing out self-taught tunes on an old piano.
From BBC ● May 27, 2026
He hasn’t let up on the criticism since, often bashing the state and Newsom on social media.
From MarketWatch ● May 19, 2026
Advocates gave a “know your rights” workshop and Amalfitano led a piñata bashing, what the store owner called “a communal form of catharsis,” encouraging students to let out pent-up emotions in a safe way.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2026
"We have heard a lot of European bashing in the last few days," Lagarde said at the closing session of the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in the Swiss Alps.
From Barron's ● Jan. 23, 2026
He hurried across the gravestone-strewn grass, falling twice, bashing his knee, with Asta darting beside him as a cat, stopping to help, encouraging, watching all around.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
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The only material thing I really wanted was a new hat, for yester morning's milk and subsequent bashings and bruisings had ruined my old one.
From The Yeoman Adventurer by Gough, George W.