beaning

present participle of bean

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Verb
  • The brutal stabbing death of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska on the Charlotte light rail directed attention to his crime policies, as many Republicans squarely blamed Cooper.
    Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 6 Oct. 2025
  • As of Monday, suspects have been arrested in the Friday shooting deaths of 18-year-old Jenny Rosales and 28-year-old Chandrashekar Pole, and a suspect has been questioned about the stabbing death of 15-year-old Jacob De La Rosa.
    Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • That album cut, originally featured on OK Computer, became a hit seemingly out of nowhere earlier this year after spearing like wildfire on TikTok.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Oxy barely survived the downturn, slashing its dividend from 79 cents per share each quarter down to just one penny.
    Jordan Blum, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Even if the game was already lost, there might not have been a penalty more maddening than Nick Cousins slashing Canadiens forward Ivan Demidov just as his team began an odd-man rush.
    Julian McKenzie, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The Western world is experiencing something of a psychedelic renaissance, with an increasing amount of interest in drugs that decades ago were considered rebellious and dangerous to some groups but fun to others who used it while clubbing and attending raves.
    Soph Warnes, CNN Money, 28 Sep. 2025
  • And Ibiza is the clubbing capital.
    Angel Saunders, People.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Newcastle were back in the Champions League after an absence of two decades and Howe was determined to drain energy-sapping emotion from a daunting opening tie against Milan.
    George Caulkin, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
  • That’s so precious to me right now, and the idea of producing a lot of stuff — and sapping all of that free time — is not appealing.
    Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 25 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Within those questions is the greatness revealed when the image moves again, when charging Eagles safety Reed Blankenship lifts a hand to tip Mayfield’s fourth-quarter throw, when the flailing football tumbles into linebacker Jihaad Campbell’s arms near the pylon.
    Brooks Kubena, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The film’s abundant humor and humanity are both rooted in DiCaprio’s ability to contain both of those people at once — to span the distance between those opposite shores while flailing towards each of them with equal desperation.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 26 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The wind was whipping this past week at McGrath Stadium, mist in the air.
    Brendan Connelly, Boston Herald, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Video from Camiguin Island, posted by the Philippines Department of the Interior and Local Government, showed fierce winds and ocean water whipping past houses onto a residential street.
    Helen Regan, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Imelda pulled away from the Bahamas Monday evening after lashing the islands with heavy rain, tropical storm-force winds and storm surge for two days.
    Briana Waxman, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Loners lashing out America has had genuine subversives and left-wing terror networks in the past.
    Michelle Goldberg, Mercury News, 27 Sep. 2025
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“Beaning.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beaning. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.

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