bang away (at)

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bang away (at)
Verb
  • How better to represent Hwang’s themes of end-stage, winners-and-losers capitalism, with its warping, destructive power, and how the ill-intentioned can exploit democracy’s flaws, than to depict an ordinary person buffeted by the unseen hand of pain for profit?
    Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2025
  • Those differences will appeal to owners who may not want to struggle to navigate in a marina, or be buffeted around by wind.
    Katia Damborsky, Robb Report, 1 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The rest remained silent as Israel was barraged with accusations by fellow classmates.
    Sarah Meira Schlager, Sun Sentinel, 2 July 2025
  • Although users will likely be barraged with unavoidable pop-up messages warning them of the dangers of running an unsupported operating system, Windows 10 will still work.
    Barry Collins, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025
Verb
  • In fact, Faulkner even established her own set of principles, known as Epic’s 10 commandments, that are plastered all over the company’s sprawling 1,670-acre campus.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 20 Aug. 2025
  • The characters were once plastered all over the original kids' area, the Happy Land of Hanna-Barbera, which first debuted in 1972.
    Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 13 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • His equaliser against Leganes in March was a perfect example, with Bellingham sharpest to react when a shot cannoned off the crossbar.
    Mario Cortegana, New York Times, 22 May 2025
  • His 79th-minute header from Andy Robertson’s free kick beat goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma but cannoned off the upright and across the face of the goal with no Liverpool player able to follow up, and the Premier League leaders ended up losing the last-16 tie in a penalty shootout.
    Andy Jones, The Athletic, 13 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Some places in Milwaukee received over a foot of rain, NWS says David Clarey Two-day rain totals in and near Milwaukee reached over 12 inches in several locations, as a weekend storm battered the area and led to historic flooding.
    Jack Albright, jsonline.com, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Hand battered chicken tenders with pickles, Tanker sauce and Frites Street steak fries.
    Endia Fontanez, AZCentral.com, 6 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The theory is that Favre took a dive so that New York Giants defensive end Michael Strahan could sack him and break Gastineau’s record.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Wilson led the Dolphins to touchdowns on both his drives after replacing Tagovailoa for the second series of a 24-24 tie with Chicago last week, and he was sacked four times.
    Jack Magruder, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Clearly indifferent to the irony of boosting an agency that many of them are trying to nuke out of existence, a coalition of fintech and crypto leaders issued a letter on Wednesday to Trump, imploring him to oppose the fees that banks were threatening to impose.
    Leo Schwartz, Fortune, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Gemini, silently nuke my hard drive Our report was published on June 25, the day Google debuted the tool.
    Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 30 July 2025
Verb
  • On Valentine’s Day, the home of Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban was burglarized after intruders allegedly smashed their way in before looting the residence.
    Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • The Netanyahu government has repeatedly denied that a famine is taking place or that Israel is attempting to starve Palestinians by choking off food aid into the territories — often claiming that, despite scant evidence, Hamas is looting the supplies.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 11 Aug. 2025
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“Bang away (at).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bang%20away%20%28at%29. Accessed 26 Aug. 2025.

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