battering
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The harsh weather battering the UK has left more than 47,000 customers in Scotland without power, Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks said on Sunday, while 2,610 properties have faced outages in Cumbria in England.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026
Hong Kong also dived more than three percent, with NetEase and Tencent taking a battering, while Chinese e-commerce giants Alibaba and JD.com were also weighed by government calls for tighter quality standards.
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026
Two of the strongest El Niños in the last 75 years were associated with extensive damage to the Southern California coast, battering homes, flooding streets and damaging piers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026
What’s different, now, is that other automakers in the U.S. are largely frozen in place after taking a battering.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
It is heard—the thunder, earthshake, drum-fire, of the bright and battering sandals I Yes, and even then it is only a cavalry charge you are thinking of, not a chivalry one.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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