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  • noun Plural form of battering.

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Examples

  • For me, the outcome of these verbal batterings is that my self-confidence has diminished to the point where I’m now reluctant to engage in almost any cis feminists’ spaces online, because it feels like the only ’safe’ option is to consider those spaces to be trans hostile by default, and to act accordingly.

    Will the last trans person to leave feminist Blogdonia please turn off the lights? 2008

  • It was only the last of the batterings that Prohibition endured in 1929 that truly signaled its impending collapse.

    LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

  • It was only the last of the batterings that Prohibition endured in 1929 that truly signaled its impending collapse.

    LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

  • Bush and his administration (including the Justice Dept.) is merely the evolutionary result of a justice system that is crumbling beneath the repeated batterings of the rich and their big guns.

    Balkinization 2007

  • Bush and his administration (including the Justice Dept.) is merely the evolutionary result of a justice system that is crumbling beneath the repeated batterings of the rich and their big guns.

    Balkinization 2007

  • Bush and his administration (including the Justice Dept.) is merely the evolutionary result of a justice system that is crumbling beneath the repeated batterings of the rich and their big guns.

    Balkinization 2007

  • Bush and his administration (including the Justice Dept.) is merely the evolutionary result of a justice system that is crumbling beneath the repeated batterings of the rich and their big guns.

    Balkinization 2007

  • Bush and his administration (including the Justice Dept.) is merely the evolutionary result of a justice system that is crumbling beneath the repeated batterings of the rich and their big guns.

    Balkinization 2007

  • Bush and his administration (including the Justice Dept.) is merely the evolutionary result of a justice system that is crumbling beneath the repeated batterings of the rich and their big guns.

    Balkinization 2007

  • Bush and his administration (including the Justice Dept.) is merely the evolutionary result of a justice system that is crumbling beneath the repeated batterings of the rich and their big guns.

    Balkinization 2007

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