clobber
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"If you live in a small house, you don't want all this clobber."
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026
At least they don’t reach out to clobber nearby cars.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 18, 2026
“I honestly don’t know,” Freddie Freeman said when asked about Ohtani’s ability to consistently clobber the ball.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2024
But as the storm continued to clobber the state, worse impacts were certainly possible, Mr. Ortiz said.
From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2024
No clobber to a bat like that and the swing is faster than I like.
From "Al Capone Does My Shirts" by Gennifer Choldenko
Popular media hasembraced the terms, using them when a snowstorm clobbers an area that usually gets little snow.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 11, 2022
That said, there are some things you can do to maintain good credit or to minimize the damage if an unexpected expense clobbers your budget.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 2, 2021
Mickelson’s not quite out of it, three back of Mattiace as he clobbers his drive on the 15th.
From Golf Digest ● Mar. 25, 2020
Malnutrition clobbers the immune system, leaving the victim more prone to infections and more likely to die from them.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 6, 2017
That line of hers clobbers me over and over.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
Meanwhile, food prices have jumped by 40% in just a few years, which has clobbered people's finances.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026
Afridi was clobbered for a six and a four as Brook raced through the "nervous nineties" in two balls, going from 90 to 100 before raising his bat.
From Barron's ● Feb. 24, 2026
The Chinese factory that opened in the U.S. and clobbered its rivals.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 9, 2026
Apartment owners, especially small ones, said they have been clobbered by the rising interest rates, inflation and insurance costs of the past several years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 30, 2025
“Otherwise we might get clobbered by our own shells.”
From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac
Apple finally overthrew Nvidia to reclaim the title of the world’s largest company by market capitalization, underscoring the dramatic degree to which the iPhone maker’s stock is clobbering the broader technology universe.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
Ford’s secret project had an ambitious goal: to figure out how to make electric vehicles in the U.S. that could compete with the Chinese models clobbering competitors globally.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026
Weatherald was in fine early touch, clobbering a series of boundaries from Carse whose radar was off, bowling too short and wide.
From Barron's ● Dec. 17, 2025
His next time up, Conforto smoked the ball again, clobbering a 110.9 mph line drive that represented his hardest exit velocity of the season.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2025
It took a clobbering in the Blitz—I wasn’t there, thank God—and the replacement buildings and the tower block are a national disgrace.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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