battering
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The latest costs relate to a mural depicting a judge in a wig battering a protester with his gavel, which appeared on the Royal Courts of Justice in London on 8 September 2025.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
But for many investors it’s been a painful period, as the recently uberpopular semiconductor sector takes a battering.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
Beginning with tobacco, they refitted the dusty doctrine as a battering ram and swung it at guns, lead paint, opioids and oil companies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
The report comes as a new heatwave is battering Europe this week, following a record-breaking one in June and an unusually early spring hot spell in May.
From Barron's ● Jul. 9, 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
