battering
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Two of the strongest El Niños in the last 75 years were associated with extensive damage to the Southern California coast, battering homes, flooding streets and damaging piers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026
The physical damage can be quickly repaired, but the country's reputation as a safe haven of stability is taking a battering.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
What’s different, now, is that other automakers in the U.S. are largely frozen in place after taking a battering.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
The season premiere opened Saturday with Ramy Youssef reprising his role as New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, delivering an update on the nor’easter battering the East Coast before James Austin Johnson’s Trump arrived unexpectedly.
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026
Fujiko had imagined, shutting her eyes, that the sandstorm battering the bus was the rain of home.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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