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Now after the wallop of success thanks to “Obsession” and with Oscar-buzz on her name, Navarrette is able to be choosier about the roles she takes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026

U.S. airlines have already canceled nearly 6,000 flights through Sunday ahead of a winter storm expected to wallop two-thirds of the United States over the weekend.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 24, 2026

Instead, he shows us a glimpse of bored, incarcerated kids tossing a wadded-up foil blanket in their cage and that image alone packs a wallop.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2025

Those primal, instinctive bonds pack a wallop when they're severed.

From Salon ● May 10, 2025

I tried to run, because I thought he might wallop me for being in his room, but instead he took my hand and led me to the stack.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

By using the “Net Rating” metric from college basketball stats guru Ken Pomeroy, it’s possible to measure how thoroughly a team wallops its opponents on both ends of the floor, adjusted for strength of schedule.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 15, 2026

He wallops his first ball to the boundary and then promptly heads back to the pavilion.

From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2024

Bayona’s take on the tragedy wallops its viewers with 2 hours and 24 minutes of unrelenting intensity.

From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2024

As another winter storm wallops the West, the mountains will receive much-needed snow, but states including Oregon will also see significant freezing rain on Saturday.

From New York Times ● Jan. 13, 2024

The piano rills through its finishing measures, and then the static wallops back.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

Clement and the law firms walloped the government.

From Slate ● May 15, 2026

In terms of this game, going to Sunderland is still a tough game - even though the Black Cats were walloped 5-0 by Nottingham Forest last time out at Stadium of Light.

From BBC ● May 7, 2026

Even the defending-champion Thunder, who walloped James’s short-handed Lakers in Game 1, aren’t immune.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026

Consumers are cutting back on how much they’re spending to fill up their gas tanks these days, but most household budgets are still getting walloped by higher prices.

From Barron's ● May 6, 2026

I didn’t quite understand the point of watching your terrible team get walloped, though the air- conditioning was reason enough for me.

From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green

Surging healthcare costs are walloping U.S. workers, and they will only worsen next year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

He can get revenge by walloping the next pitch for a hit.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

Guided by visionary coach Curt Cignetti, Indiana has spent the College Football Playoff walloping blueblood programs like Alabama and Knight’s Oregon Ducks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026

Marseille climbed provisionally top of the French Ligue 1 on Friday after walloping woeful Nice 5-1 in a one-sided local derby with fireworks on and off the pitch.

From Barron's ● Nov. 21, 2025

But my aunt was not the kind of person you go around walloping for joy.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan