as in defeat
failure to win a contest
our team's most recent plastering is just plain sad
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as in nailing
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as in smearing
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as in battering
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Recent Examples of plastering
Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2025
There are a number of free workshops ranging from clay plastering and crochet to book binding.
—Lee Sharrock, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
The space has proper floors now and will soon have electricity, with plastering to follow.
—Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2025
There are incredible historical details throughout like original plastering on the wall, antique tiles, vaulted ceiling, and terrazzo floors.
—Madeline Weinfield, Architectural Digest, 27 June 2025
At 15 years of age, Dilley started his film career with a plastering and construction apprenticeship at the Associated British Picture Corporation, while also studying architecture and building construction at Willesden Technical College.
—Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 24 May 2025
The printer's advantages include reducing the amount of plastering and post-treatment of walls and reducing water evaporation because of minimized wall surface area, according to the company.
—Melina Khan, USA Today, 1 May 2025
Archaeologists also found amphorae storage jars which were used to ‘quench’ the lime used for plastering as well as to store other tools, from lead weights used to erect a perfectly vertical wall, to iron hoes to prepare mortar and work lime.
—Reuters, NBC News, 25 Mar. 2024
In 2019, Sohui Kim and Ben Schneider, the married couple behind the Good Fork, in Red Hook, and Insa, in Gowanus, along with St. John Frizell, of Red Hook’s Fort Defiance, restored them to their former glory, with a fresh plastering of William Morris wallpaper.
—Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 29 Apr. 2022
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So Sung doubled down on his efforts, sending a more urgent follow-up email and plastering LinkedIn with posts about his internship in a bid to get noticed.
—Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2025
There are a number of free workshops ranging from clay plastering and crochet to book binding.
—Lee Sharrock, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
The space has proper floors now and will soon have electricity, with plastering to follow.
—Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2025
There are incredible historical details throughout like original plastering on the wall, antique tiles, vaulted ceiling, and terrazzo floors.
—Madeline Weinfield, Architectural Digest, 27 June 2025
At 15 years of age, Dilley started his film career with a plastering and construction apprenticeship at the Associated British Picture Corporation, while also studying architecture and building construction at Willesden Technical College.
—Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 24 May 2025
The printer's advantages include reducing the amount of plastering and post-treatment of walls and reducing water evaporation because of minimized wall surface area, according to the company.
—Melina Khan, USA Today, 1 May 2025
Archaeologists also found amphorae storage jars which were used to ‘quench’ the lime used for plastering as well as to store other tools, from lead weights used to erect a perfectly vertical wall, to iron hoes to prepare mortar and work lime.
—Reuters, NBC News, 25 Mar. 2024
In 2019, Sohui Kim and Ben Schneider, the married couple behind the Good Fork, in Red Hook, and Insa, in Gowanus, along with St. John Frizell, of Red Hook’s Fort Defiance, restored them to their former glory, with a fresh plastering of William Morris wallpaper.
—Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 29 Apr. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for plastering
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Auburn fell to 4-5 on the year after the Week 10 defeat to the Wildcats.—
Chantz Martin,
FOXNews.com,
7 Nov. 2025
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Although Ukraine for now is still maintaining a defense, the fall of Pokrovsk would be one of the most serious defeats Ukraine has suffered since March, when its troops were forced to retreat from Russia's Kursk region.—
David Brennan,
ABC News,
6 Nov. 2025
Verb
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For me, the feeling of nailing a big, screen-clearing combo while the music swells to a crescendo is well worth the grind.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
4 Nov. 2025
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Nonetheless, Carolina upset the Packers, 16-13, with Fitzgerald nailing the game-winning 49-yarder.—
Chris Bumbaca,
USA Today,
3 Nov. 2025
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The vacuum cleaner has powerful suction, and the mop cleans without sloshing and smearing water on the floor.—
Terri Williams,
Architectural Digest,
3 Nov. 2025
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The little brother is still contentedly working on his painting, dipping his brush into his pots and then smearing it across the paper.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 Oct. 2025
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That Week 1 battering could play a central role in the CFP selection committee’s cross-conference evaluation of contenders — even if the Broncos don’t win the Mountain West.—
Jon Wilner,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
9 Nov. 2025
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The strong winds are indirectly caused by an atmospheric river battering California, as the storm is providing moisture to a weather system that is causing the winds in Nevada, NWS meteorologist Jon Bongard told Newsweek.—
Anna Skinner,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Nov. 2025
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The man previously on Florida’s Death Row for beating, stabbing and strangling a La Carreta waitress with a rice cooker — before lighting a blaze to destroy key evidence — should be condemned to die, Miami prosecutors told a jury after detailing the slaying on Wednesday morning.—
Grethel Aguila,
Miami Herald,
5 Nov. 2025
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Predictably, Mike responds to Kyle’s beating by meddling further.—
Noel Murray,
Vulture,
2 Nov. 2025
Verb
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When Kipley started posting informational videos online about her decision to pump during class, she was faced with a good amount of backlash.—
Tereza Shkurtaj,
PEOPLE,
9 Nov. 2025
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The president is also posting about tariffs this morning.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
9 Nov. 2025
Verb
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But there is a distinction, Kutwala said, between flying flags from one’s own property and daubing paint across the town.—
Olivia Kemp,
CNN Money,
29 Aug. 2025
Noun
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This means clear ownership, strategic leadership, and, above all, profit-and-loss accountability.—
Phil Gilbert,
Fortune,
12 Nov. 2025
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Three years later, a clinical study of the Pro, paid for by Stryker, found that 1 in 4 patients experienced complications after getting the implant, ranging from infection to avascular necrosis, the death of bone tissue due to loss of blood.—
Elizabeth B. Kim,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
12 Nov. 2025
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“Plastering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plastering. Accessed 23 Nov. 2025.
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