BANGED AWAY (AT) Synonyms: 41 Similar and Opposite Words

banged away (at)

verb

past tense of bang away (at)

as in buffeted

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Growing worries over whether Big Tech’s massive investments in artificial-intelligence technology will translate into profits and whether chipmaker stocks have soared too high in the euphoria around AI have also buffeted share prices.

— ABC News, ABC News, 3 Aug. 2026
ServiceNow has been buffeted by fears of the ‘SaaSpocalypse,’ or that autonomous AI agents will undercut demand for enterprise software.

— Shawn Tully, Fortune, 24 July 2026

Definition of buffeted

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Rhodes was left bruised and battered that night but was still the champion.

— Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 2 Aug. 2026
The National Weather Service has repeatedly warned of dangerous rip currents and elevated surf in recent weeks as multiple southerly swells battered the coastlines of Los Angeles and Ventura counties.

— Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2026

Definition of battered

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The staff means business, with the host stand besieged by walk-ins, take-out orders, and impatient guests waiting outside.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 July 2026
His entries have always been besieged by cameos from popular characters such as Iron Man, Nick Fury, or, as in No Way Home, the Spider-Men that preceded Holland’s take.

— David Sims, The Atlantic, 30 July 2026

Definition of besieged

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Local government officials have played a key role in orchestrating the competition’s spread, eying the boost for businesses in a domestic economy beleaguered by weak consumption.

— Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 21 July 2026
In Georgia, chicken farmers are beleaguered by bedbugs, which have hopped from hotel rooms to poultry farms, and from there to workers’ homes.

— Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 29 June 2026

Definition of beleaguered

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Over the course of seven hours, a series of waves, some as high as 30 feet, ravaged 15 countries including India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and Thailand, killing more than 200,000 people and leaving millions without food, water, shelter, or jobs.

— Tracy Grant, Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 Aug. 2026
Sinaloa has in recent years been ravaged by warring between two factions of the Sinaloa Cartel.

— ABC News, ABC News, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of ravaged

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Each character has totally justified and totally unjustified reasons for resenting one another, and the sensation of absorbing those contrasting opinions is like being in a stuck bumper car, barraged and battered from all sides.

— Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 16 Apr. 2026
Checchi, in particular, barraged voters with an unrelenting flood of ads.

— Mark Z. Barabak, Mercury News, 28 Mar. 2026

Definition of barraged

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Iran has bombarded several of its neighbors’ data centers, and the United States responded by attacking one of Iran’s.

— David Goldman, CNN Money, 3 Aug. 2026
Russia bombarded Ukraine last weekend with one of the largest ballistic-missile barrages of the entire war.

— Mark Montgomery, Washington Post, 31 July 2026

Definition of bombarded

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Her decision to campaign publicly for Chan surprised some observers, given Wiener’s years of legislative experience and prominence in California Democratic politics.

— Barnini Chakraborty, The Washington Examiner, 1 Aug. 2026
To mark the occasion, Billy Corgan surprised the massive Chicago crowd by bringing out special guests Olivia Rodrigo and Yungblud.

— Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 1 Aug. 2026

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