battering

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Internet access took a battering ram to information’s door, sending dizzying amounts of data our way overnight.

From Salon • May 30, 2026

“I’m worried that these attacks are battering the institution.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026

On June 11, he wrote: “Every time I read about the battering ram incident I’m just floored at how wild that is.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026

Few players score two equalisers at the Nou Camp yet end up on the receiving end of a 7-2 battering like a stunned Anthony Elanga did.

From BBC • Mar. 18, 2026

The space inside the cage became a blur of bulging bird eyes, a cloud of thatching hay, and a pair of blue-and-orange wings battering the walls in every direction with a hysterical thwap, thwap, thwap!

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri