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as in pounding

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verb

present participle of batter

as in licking

to strike repeatedly children battered the piñata until it broke open

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as in bombing

to use bombs or artillery against planes battered the city for weeks

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Noun

Almost everything sounds great, but the constant patter of the drums, which falls into the boosted bass range, feels more like a battering. —

Mark Knapp, PC Magazine, 8 May 2026 Some modern theories have posited that the wooden horse was a machine of warfare, such as a siege engine or a battering ram. —

Gitanjali Roy, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Apr. 2026

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Wright’s approach to the saxophone is often cubist in nature, reducing the music to isolated phrases and sounds and then battering them from every conceivable angle. —

Levi Dayan, Pitchfork, 11 May 2026 After all, the two Republicans have spent more than $80 million battering each other on the airwaves. —

Greg Bluestein, AJC.com, 28 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for battering

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Rutted migration routes, carved by the constant pounding of animal hooves, littered northern Pennsylvania.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 June 2026
But perhaps the constant pounding was just too much for the pier, built in 1973.

— John Ramos, CBS News, 7 June 2026