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Examples
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Don't forget to make it stable through the transonic flight without buffetting the rider to pieces.
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Warrantless searches, Katrina fingerpointing, $7.8 trillion budget, Abramoff spin: these were the stories buffetting the White House last week.
Trade and Growth 2006
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After six years of buffetting by the scientists the ID big tent has folded up and its ringmasters have decided to give up any pretence of doing science.
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After six years of buffetting by the scientists the ID big tent has folded up and its ringmasters have decided to give up any pretence of doing science.
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Clinker, who heard me cry, and saw me indistinctly a good way without the guide, buffetting the waves, took it for granted I was drowning, and rushing into the sea, clothes and all, overturned the guide in his hurry to save his master.
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All the ships converged and fired on the Enterprise, buffetting it.
Doors Into Chaos Robert Greenberger 2001
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Through this hole, Vaughn saw not the rocks and breaking waves of Costa Ro - cosa that he knew to be on the other side of it, but in-stead an arid expanse of blue sand being blown by winds even harsher than those buffetting Vaughn.
Demons Of Air And Darkness DeCandido, Keith R. A. 2001
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The poor little "Foxhound" had a lively time of it, and proved herself unequal to such a buffetting.
In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 J. J. Smith
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Colomberie, who was going out to spend the evening; and who struggled with all her healthy vigour against the impertinent buffetting of the bleak north-wester.
Where Deep Seas Moan E. Gallienne Robin
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Reviling, slandering, buffetting and caning were oft his lot.
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