- present participle of smash.
smashing
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“As soon as everyone talks about Erewhon New York City, which would be a smashing hit, we know that you’ve got to have the supply chain to support it,” he added.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
At the risk of sounding monstrous, can we please get back to the smashing?
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026
With each passing month, it’s becoming increasingly clear that artificial intelligence is taking over the internet, sucking up online searches and smashing the businesses of household-name companies.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026
Nearly 14 billion years later, researchers can briefly recreate these extraordinary conditions by smashing atomic nuclei together at extremely high energies inside the LHC.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026
The hailstones were no longer smashing against the peach.
From "James and the Giant Peach" by Roald Dahl
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