bandied (about)

past tense of bandy (about)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for bandied (about)
Verb
  • Everything else was affected by its gravitational pull and drawn into the work of dilating it further—even the firms rumored to be at the farthest remove from the crudity, even negative emissions technologies and the market on which their credits circulated.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Inspired by executive producer and Kardashian’s real-life divorce attorney Laura Wasser (who is also rumored to have been the model for the Laura Dern character in Marriage Story), All’s Fair ostensibly means to explore how these women’s careers inform their personal lives, and vice versa.
    Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 4 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Everything else was affected by its gravitational pull and drawn into the work of dilating it further—even the firms rumored to be at the farthest remove from the crudity, even negative emissions technologies and the market on which their credits circulated.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Nov. 2025
  • The President’s message, circulated among his 11 million followers and beyond, stood in direct defiance of a court order from last week.
    Callum Sutherland, Time, 5 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Bogavac scored 10 points and dished five assists while playing 20 minutes off the bench.
    Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Monk knocked down a 3-pointer, dished to Sabonis for a dunk and threw down a dunk of his own as the Kings came back to cut the deficit to three at the end of the first quarter.
    Jason Anderson, Sacbee.com, 30 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Suarez is permitted to accept such gifts as long as they are disclosed, as this gift was, and the giver is not a city lobbyist.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Most were disclosed in late October, when Amazon, Meta Platforms and Applied Materials reported separate layoff decisions.
    George Avalos, Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Researchers found that both same-gender and different-gender couples gossiped for about 38 minutes a day individually and 29 minutes a day together.
    Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 9 Aug. 2025
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“Bandied (about).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bandied%20%28about%29. Accessed 9 Nov. 2025.

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