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smashing

[smash-ing] / ˈsmæʃ ɪŋ /






















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Nonfarm payrolls surged by 172,000, smashing expectations of just 88,000, while the U-3 unemployment rate held steady at 4.3%.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 6, 2026

And it was a smashing success, not only politically, but substantively as well.

From Salon • May 14, 2026

Mr Justice Johnson told the jurors that if the defendants believed that they had been morally justified in smashing up Elbit's property, that would not be a "lawful excuse".

From BBC • May 12, 2026

Earnings per share surged to $0.42, nearly doubling last year’s $0.22 and smashing expectations of around $0.08.

From Barron's • May 8, 2026

Once, when I was little, I yelled at her for smashing a dugout I’d constructed out of cardboard and my mom didn’t speak to me for a month.

From "Al Capone Does My Shirts" by Gennifer Choldenko




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