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clobber



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Consequently, any great jump in spending by hyperscalers may clobber stocks that carry great weighting in the market.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026

At least they don’t reach out to clobber nearby cars.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 18, 2026

Instead, he will hit lazy pop-flys, or yank a ground ball to the pull side, or simply foul off mistake pitches he’d typically clobber.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 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

“My dad said the same thing,” I added, “only my mom was going to clobber him.”

From "Dead End in Norvelt" by Jack Gantos

Popular media hasembraced the terms, using them when a snowstorm clobbers an area that usually gets little snow.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 11, 2022

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

The deep brown brew starts off with milk chocolate flavors before the coconut clobbers everything else, and the oily, woodsy coconut essence lingers long on the palate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2016

That line of hers clobbers me over and over.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

That is a big change for the sector, which got clobbered by the pandemic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

That team held a players-only meeting after falling to 0-3… then got clobbered, 27-0, by the Houston Oilers in Week 4.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

Immediately after tea he clobbered the spin of Ali Usman over the leg side for six, then reached his half-century from 64 balls in the following over.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

And in Asia, Seoul's Kospi, the poster child of the AI tech rally, lost more than five percent as chip titans SK hynix and Samsung were clobbered at least seven percent.

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026

Treeless and rocky, perpetually clobbered by gales howling off the North Atlantic, it takes its name from its first settlers, now long gone, the Irish monks known as papar.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

“The Last House” and “The Whisper Man” have both outperformed “Don’t Say Good Luck,” with “The Whisper Man” clobbering both in the number of hours viewed after just a few days on the streamer.

From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026

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

By the time Mr. Birkway got to me, my heart was clobbering around so hard I thought it might leap straight out of my chest.

From "Walk Two Moons" by Sharon Creech


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