bandied (about)

past tense of bandy (about)

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bandied (about)
Verb
  • The singer-actress is expected to attend Swift's wedding to NFL star Travis Kelce, which is rumored to take place next month.
    Latoya Gayle, PEOPLE, 12 June 2026
  • Because if all these UFO stories that have been rumored and speculated about over the decades are in fact true, then the aliens should look roughly like the ones that regularly haunted the 20th century’s dreams.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 12 June 2026
Verb
  • The audio was widely circulated on social media.
    Adam Thompson, CBS News, 12 June 2026
  • Health experts say the Bundibugyo strain is likely to have circulated, undetected, for weeks in the northeastern Ituri province where artisanal mining is an economic mainstay.
    Alexis Akwagyiram, semafor.com, 12 June 2026
Verb
  • Kinney also dished five assists against two turnovers with two steals and one rebound while starting and playing 11 minutes.
    Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 7 June 2026
  • Starting to drive, Miles instead dished a pass to Howard for an open layup.
    Mike Cook, Twin Cities, 28 May 2026
Verb
  • No cause of death has been immediately disclosed.
    Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 14 June 2026
  • Ahead of this week’s record IPO, SpaceX disclosed that Google has agreed to pay it roughly $920 million a month for compute capacity at its Memphis campus, access to something on the order of 110,000 GPUs running into 2029.
    Robert J. Szczerba, Forbes.com, 13 June 2026
Verb
  • The column gossiped about which journalists and pundits did not pass the new purity test.
    Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 7 May 2026
  • One student was determined to get high-fives from a reporter, and students gossiped about gaining fame in the local paper.
    Joseph States, Chicago Tribune, 20 Apr. 2026
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“Bandied (about).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bandied%20%28about%29. Accessed 16 Jun. 2026.

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