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Record-high beef prices will continue to wallop U.S. consumers this summer as drought conditions and the resurgence of an invasive pest are the latest obstacles to increasing cattle herds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 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

Today, King’s grim satire doesn’t seem quite as far-fetched, so Wright’s challenge will be making sure his update still packs a wallop.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2025

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

From Salon ● May 10, 2025

I could feel a wallop of rude and ornery coming up my throat and fighting to get out of my mouth.

From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan

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

With dazzling ballroom performances, juicy drama and wallops of heartache throughout, “Pose” tells the story of how we got to this drag-obsessed culture and shows why the art form’s history is so important today.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 20, 2023

Third batter wallops one hard right to me.

From "Al Capone Does My Shirts" by Gennifer Choldenko

I wondered, though, if there were any retired Dodgers out there who might be thinking they’d have walloped more home runs if they’d had the advantage of warmer air.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026

Last October's Hurricane Melissa – the strongest in Jamaica's history – walloped the island's agricultural sector, while it was still recovering from Hurricane Beryl the year before.

From BBC ● May 31, 2026

Clement and the law firms walloped the government.

From Slate ● May 15, 2026

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

From Barron's ● May 7, 2026

The reader of Unweaving the Rainbow opens the book and is walloped with a reminder of the most dreadful fact we know, and on its heels a paradoxical elaboration.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

“Best and Last’s” flashbacks are a walloping reminder that Knoxville is inimitable: a telegenic and extroverted entertainer with a charisma he wields like a skunk aims its stink.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026

That means that the teams walloping the rest of the league are, for the time being, doing it while spending less money than most of their competition.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 25, 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

And it definitely had nothing to do with her fellow competitors walloping her at the race yesterday.

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas