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are smashing

  • present progressive of smash.

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“The Americans are smashing through their own interests and leaving us with a bloody nose,” he says.

From Barron's Nov. 6, 2025

England have been ruthless, they are smashing through.

From BBC Apr. 19, 2024

Electric cars are smashing all kinds of records in the U.S.

From Seattle Times Sep. 18, 2023

Michael Michetti’s production, which opened last weekend at Pasadena Playhouse, doesn’t soften the edges of the personalities that are smashing into one another, bumper-car-style.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 7, 2022

Sometimes he does it in the middle of the night when the thunder and lightning are smashing about him like all possessed, and the cattle are on the rampage.

From The Pony Rider Boys in Texas Or, The Veiled Riddle of the Plains by Patchin, Frank Gee