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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After four decades of conflict, the impoverished, aid-dependent country is now buffeted by multiple crises, from natural disasters and climate change to the largest influx of returning refugees the world has seen in decades.

— ABC News, ABC News, 8 July 2026
But shareholders have pushed back against hefty pay packages, which come during a period of upheaval in Hollywood that has been buffeted by job losses from media consolidation and outsourcing.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2026

Definition of buffeted

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Pitching was supposed to be the strength Heading into the season, pitching was viewed as the Marlins’ clearest strength before the staff was battered by injuries.

— Tyler M. Carmona July 15, Miami Herald, 15 July 2026
One person remains missing in Missouri after heavy rainfall battered parts of the state Friday, forcing numerous emergency rescues and evacuations, including at a summer camp with more than 200 children.

— Hallie Golden, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2026

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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
Sybil, who spent her younger years beleaguered by the presence of her double, that emblem of feminine conformity named Désirée, never manages to perceive herself as anything but abnormal by comparison.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 June 2026

Definition of beleaguered

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The last three Republican presidents have left the country in the economic and war-ravaged mess that is the standard Republican modus operandi.

— Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 17 July 2026
Three years later, the Dixie fire ravaged nearly a million acres.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2026

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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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In fact, some scientists think that life on Earth could've been sparked by asteroids delivering the materials for life via such collisions during an era where our planet was heavily bombarded by such objects around four billion years ago.

— Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 15 July 2026
Then there is the fate of the incumbent, who fled Tibet’s capital Lhasa for India in 1959 just days before red Chinese troops bombarded the sloping granite walls of his Potala Palace home.

— Charlie Campbell, Time, 9 July 2026

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