punching bag

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Recent Examples of punching bag Netflix has been a favourite punching bag for many in the French industry who blame declining box office on the rise of online viewing. Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Dec. 2022 Maybe my knee-jerk reaction just proved a key Harry & Meghan point: The Duchess of Sussex makes for an easy punching bag. Kristen Baldwin and Darren Franich, EW.com, 14 Dec. 2022 This 205-pound heavyweight punching bag is a #1 best-seller on Amazon. John Thompson, Men's Health, 14 Nov. 2022 Despite all the positive talk from Rodgers, Green Bay is a shell of itself and nothing will illustrate that more than a road loss to its longtime punching bag. Richard Morin, USA TODAY, 3 Nov. 2022 See All Example Sentences for punching bag
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Noun
  • The losers Shares of U.S. carriers have been battered by Trump's tariffs and softening travel demand, with the S&P 1500 airlines index .SPCOMAIR losing nearly a third of its value since January 20.
    Shashwat Chauhan and Medha Singh, USA Today, 30 Apr. 2025
  • Some position groups and players already on the roster benefited more than others from Morgan’s decisions, which The Athletic breaks down with a look at the winners, losers and those still to be determined after the draft.
    Joseph Person, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The media personality and entrepreneur wore a butter yellow latex dress with a body-con silhouette and a low-cut neckline, paired with summer-ready flip flops.
    Renan Botelho, Footwear News, 12 Apr. 2025
  • White House advisors claimed the flip flop was always the strategy, suggesting that the past week of massive tariffs that triggered huge market losses was all for show.
    Dan Mangan,Kevin Breuninger,Jeff Cox,Christina Wilkie,Erin Doherty,Ruxandra Iordache, CNBC, 9 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • With the three-day washout in stocks continuing Monday, traders were still expecting the central bank to wait until June before its next interest rate cut.
    Jeff Cox, CNBC, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Cinema Saviours After years of the washout of the Covid years, the appearance of Oppenheimer and Barbie, appearing in cinemas at the same time gave us the much talked about ‘Barbenheimer’ phenomenon, with many people choosing to see both films on the same day.
    Benny Har-Even, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • To me, that’s something that’s in your character to be a quitter.
    Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 22 Mar. 2025
  • And Braverman wasn’t a quitter, in fact, quite the opposite.
    Zoey Lyttle, People.com, 14 Mar. 2025

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“Punching bag.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/punching%20bag. Accessed 3 May. 2025.

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