sledging

present participle of sledge

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sledging
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
  • The company destroyed a piece of lashing wire that investigators believe slapped an Xcel electrical conductor and caused arcing that led to the fire, said Matthew Delinko with Bauman, Lowe, Witt & Maxwell, a law firm representing insurance companies.
    Noelle Phillips, Denver Post, 21 Aug. 2025
  • By Wednesday, videos of waves lashing the homes began to make the rounds on social media.
    Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The Milwaukee mother who claimed her stepfather threw her baby from a balcony has now been charged with child abuse herself, accused of whipping her younger brothers.
    Drake Bentley, jsonline.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Olbinski ran to his car, while others hunkered down and braved the brutal winds and whipping sand.
    Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • And Ibiza is the clubbing capital.
    Angel Saunders, People.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • If the experience of illness is inevitably one of sapping solipsism, caretaking is its life-giving corollary.
    Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
  • However, these decisions shouldn’t be sapping you of your energy altogether.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Another video appeared to show a person pointing at the windows of a drawing of a church, then stabbing it with a knife.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 29 Aug. 2025
  • John and Penny’s guilt Elizabeth deduces that the unidentified bones in the cemetery belong to Peter Mercer (Will Stevens), the boyfriend of the stabbing victim whose murder the TMC is investigating at the start of the story.
    EW.com, EW.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Witnesses and lawmakers wrestled with NASA’s budget priorities, highlighting concern that the administration’s 2026 budget request tilts heavily toward exploration while slashing science programs.
    Josh Dinner, Space.com, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Such reviews have led to companies clearing the deck for new CEOs by slashing top and bottom line expectations, leaving stocks vulnerable to steep corrections.
    Chloe Taylor,Ganesh Rao, CNBC, 2 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Just these two technologies as examples demonstrate the vast improvements needed in the complex urban jungle for companies to engineer an avoidance strategy for both autonomous vehicles and a jury’s thrashing.
    Steve Tengler, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The Blues have since responded with a 5-1 thrashing at West Ham in Week 2, though that result appears difficult to judge given the Hammers' struggles this term.
    Ben Verbrugge, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Aug. 2025
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“Sledging.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sledging. Accessed 8 Sep. 2025.

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