battering
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Officers pour out and stand ready with a battering ram, but the front door is already open.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 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, in 1982-83 and 1997-98, were associated with extensive damage to the Southern California coast, battering homes, flooding streets and damaging piers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
So they had; and so they did the transcontinental, battering it through the high passes of the Sierra Nevada and then, far more quickly, hurrying toward the head of the Union Pacific’s tracks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
It smacks him like a battering ram: he shouldn’t be here.
From "Dear Martin" by Nic Stone
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