Thesaurus results for LOBBING

lobbing

verb

present participle of lob

as in throwing

to send through the air especially with a quick forward motion of the arm he lightly lobbed the errant ball over the fence to the waiting schoolboy

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Recent Examples of lobbing Trump has been in an increasingly agitated state, lobbing barbs at the alliance for refusing to help clear the Strait of Hormuz, the Persian Gulf chokepoint where around 20% of the world’s oil flowed until Iran effectively shuttered it. —

Daniel Depetris, Chicago Tribune, 7 Apr. 2026 Prosecutors are also investigating Gregory Bovino, the outgoing Border Patrol commander who helped to lead immigration surges into several American cities and who was seen on video lobbing green-smoke canisters into crowds at a park in Minneapolis. —

Andy Mannix, ProPublica, 25 Mar. 2026 Iran has responded by lobbing missiles into Israel. —

March 3, CBS News, 3 Mar. 2026 In addition to OpenAI running an ad, its competitor Anthropic is airing its first Super Bowl commercial about its Claude system and lobbing jabs at OpenAI about its addition of ads into ChatGPT. —

Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 5 Feb. 2026 The strategy that King decided on at the last minute was to hang back, lobbing softballs to create long volleys that would tire Riggs out. —

Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 28 Jan. 2026 Greg Bovino, the preening Border Patrol chief who wandered around Minneapolis posing for photos and lobbing tear gas at protesters, left the city on Tuesday, seemingly pushed out by the administration. —

Quinta Jurecic, The Atlantic, 28 Jan. 2026 Her campaign's focus on cyber-bullying struck some as ironic, considering the president's penchant for lobbing online insults at his critics. —

Greta Bjornson, PEOPLE, 12 Dec. 2025 The civil case notwithstanding, the DOJ is now lobbing new criminal charges against Cherfilus-McCormick and three others. —

Claire Heddles, Miami Herald, 21 Nov. 2025

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Though the arrest took place in 2023, the incident made headlines again in March after a video of the altercation — showing Paul yelling, putting Mortensen in a headlock and throwing chairs at him while a child could be heard crying — was published by TMZ.

— Becca Longmire, PEOPLE, 20 Apr. 2026
Billy Cook dropped a bunt to move Bart to third, but Feduccia took too long throwing to first, so the Pirates had two on with no outs.

— Marc Topkin, The Orlando Sentinel, 19 Apr. 2026