sledging

present participle of sledge

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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
  • What To Know The Philippines' inter-agency National Task Force on the West Philippine Sea on Monday released drone footage showing a Chinese coast guard ship lashing a Philippine boat with its water cannon.
    Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Coastal areas of suburban Long Island could see flooding, with up to 3 inches (about 8 centimeters) of rain and lashing winds expected, the weather service said.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In one short, a young Stuckmann, dressed as Harrison Ford's lasso-whipping adventurer, jumps onto the back of a moving car.
    Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Mash as desired, either with a potato masher or by whipping with an electric mixer.
    Elizabeth Nelson, Southern Living, 21 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The child swung wildly at the piñata, clubbing it several times and stabbing it several times more.
    Peter D'Abrosca, FOXNews.com, 21 Oct. 2025
  • After the clubbing scandal, the Finnish media, which had already dubbed her Party Sanna, began ramping up its coverage of Marin’s off-the-clock activities.
    Jennifer Wilson, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 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
  • Crime in the city has become the top issue in the mayor's race after some high-profile incidents this summer, including the stabbing death in June of an Over-the-Rhine gym owner in his own home.
    Quinlan Bentley, Cincinnati Enquirer, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Michael Anthony Arredondo, 34, is charged in suspicion of first-degree murder in the June 2017 stabbing death of 25-year-old Evin Paulos.
    Jose R. Gonzalez, AZCentral.com, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Some of this slashing and burning can be explained by the old-fashioned small-government fanaticism of administration personnel like Russell Vought, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget.
    Michelle Goldberg, Mercury News, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Insurers are slashing networks, hiking deductibles, and pulling out of entire counties.
    Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Liverpool eased their Champions League jitters by thrashing Eintracht Frankfurt on Wednesday; now for the Premier League.
    The Athletic UK Staff, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
  • The wife ushers the two frightened boys behind her, and watches on helplessly as her husband screams in agony and terror, thrashing his arms and legs.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
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“Sledging.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sledging. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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