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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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
But back in 2022, leading up to and following the release of Don't Worry Darling, her second feature in the director's chair, Wilde couldn't make it through a single media engagement without being buffeted by gusts from a maelstrom of rumors and gossip consuming her life.

— Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 24 June 2026

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Heavy monsoon rains battered parts of neighboring India, leaving over a dozen of people dead over the past few days.

— ABC News, ABC News, 8 July 2026
Heavy monsoon rains battered parts of neighboring India, leaving over a dozen of people dead over the last few days.

— Ken Moritsugu, Los Angeles Times, 8 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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They’ve been ravaged by freak injuries throughout the season and have yet to find their stride.

— Chris Biderman, Sacbee.com, 9 July 2026
Newsom's state was ravaged by a trans athlete national media crisis in May, for the second year in a row and third time in total in one year, as prominent trans athlete AB Hernandez competed in girls' sports.

— Jackson Thompson OutKick, FOXNews.com, 4 July 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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But Fortune, who serves on the Hartford school board, surprised some insiders by collecting the signatures in a theme that has endured for years for her and others as women of color.

— Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 5 July 2026
Bill MacLauchlin surprised the bicentennial beard contest judges with a blue and white beard topped by a red moustache.

— Orlando Sentinel Staff, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 July 2026

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