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planishing

verb

present participle of planish

as in hammering

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Of course, that hasn’t stopped Jackson’s campaign and its allies from hammering Collins over the allegations.

— Chris Smith, Vanity Fair, 26 Oct. 2026
Eisenkot, who lost a son and two nephews to fighting in Gaza, has been particularly unsparing in his criticism, repeatedly hammering Netanyahu for refusing to take any accountability for the calamity.

— Aluf Benn, Foreign Affairs, 23 Oct. 2026

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Bahl said the film centers on music, identity and belonging, and takes place in a period when a generation was forging a cultural identity of its own.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 2 Nov. 2026
The county party chair and operations director were charged with perjury and forgery, but the crime was forging signatures, not their strategy.

— Drew Kurlowski, The Conversation, 30 Oct. 2026

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Florida should belong to the people who live here, not billionaires with cushy coastal vacation homes or corporations chasing a tax haven.

— Cameron Driggers, The Orlando Sentinel, 1 Nov. 2026
Throughout this story, the husband is unwittingly chasing a sense of relief.

— Deborah Treisman, New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2026

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Then, tentatively, Serhii began molding himself into his new life.

— Scott Peterson, Christian Science Monitor, 7 Oct. 2026
Buffalo weighed those reports before adding Walker and molding the rookie to become a star prospect who started every game except the opener.

— Matt Schneidman, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2026

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Groups of young people were seen dancing with music pounding through the crowd as meters away tear gas billowed into the air.

— Joseph Ataman, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2026
At the moment, the good detective is strutting around the float, kicking the wheels and pounding the floorboards.

— Danielle Parker, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026

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Adam has always coped with the world by drawing—his artwork on yellow legal pads and sticky notes illustrates the novel—but now there’s a new girl in school who’s praised for her artwork, and Adam feels his identity as an artist slipping away.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 2 Nov. 2026
Pan Yunzhe founded Wuji in 2019, eventually moving much of the team to Shenzhen and drawing backers such as Ant Group, HSG and Future Capital, according to PitchBook.

— Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 2 Nov. 2026

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What scientists are more sure of is the fact that this interstellar comet was produced within a planet-forming disk of gas and dust around a young star, possibly as long ago as 10 to 12 billion years.

— Keith Cooper, Space.com, 2 Nov. 2026
On Friday, Netanyahu again warned against forming a coalition with Arab parties.

— CARA ANNA, Arkansas Online, 31 Oct. 2026

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