wallop
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On this occasion, he tried to wallop the spin of Tharindu Rathnayake over long-on and was stumped by a distance.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
They also wallop small businesses, which typically pay tax at their state’s individual rate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 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
The Getty Museum’s groundbreaking Pride Month show is provocative and important, and the timing packs a wallop.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2025
“He took a wallop, that’s for sure. But you know what that’s like, don’t you?”
From "We'll Fly Away" by Bryan Bliss
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
Just to be doing something she picked up a ten-penny nail and drove it into the steps with a few good wallops.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
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
Harry Byrne walloped the restart after Lucu's try dead, and while Bielle-Biarrey also kicked one long, the ball brushed Keenan's hand on its way through.
From BBC ● May 23, 2026
Clement and the law firms walloped the government.
From Slate ● May 15, 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
Deciding that he didn’t feel like having the daylights walloped out of him, he walked to the rack of weapons and selected two wooden swords.
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
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
The thud of fists walloping punching bags reverberates through the gym from morning until evening.
From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026
The men traded a series of incendiary, insulting songs, but the one that endures is Lamar’s “Not Like Us”—spooky, walloping, chart-topping, Grammy-winning.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026
“It just keeps walloping me over and over, and it’s like it’s the first time every time,” he says in a husky voice.
From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman
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