balling

present participle of ball
as in rolling
to form into a round compact mass balled up the paper and threw it at the garbage can

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Recent Examples of balling Apple has been low-balling its battery estimates for a while, though, and in our testing, the Series 10 lasted nearly 36 hours. PC Magazine, 10 Sep. 2025 Now, his son picking up the pace balling out. Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 9 Aug. 2025 Just coming out prepared and just balling out. Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Aug. 2025
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  • The director noticed that the exhausted Sheen couldn't keep his eyes open even when cameras were rolling.
    Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
  • According to the company’s VP of Product Management for Brokerage, Abhishek Fatehpuria, the plan is to create an initial pool of 10,000 Robinhood Social users in the first quarter of next year, before rolling it out to all customers.
    Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 10 Sep. 2025
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  • Cameras are rolling on BritBox‘s modern reimagining of Agatha Christie‘s Tommy and Tuppence detective stories, with the series rounding out its cast.
    Jake Kanter, Deadline, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Across tens of thousands of customers, that delta isn’t a rounding error.
    Erik Huberman, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025

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“Balling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/balling. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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