battered
1 Britishadjective
adjective
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Airline stocks slid as a winter storm battered the Northeast, causing travel delays.
From Barron's
But the floods that battered northwestern Morocco in recent weeks have left evacuees like Habachi with little to celebrate.
From Barron's
This latest wreck is believed to have been caused by the series of brutal storms that have battered the Atlantic coast of the UK and Europe since January.
From BBC
But like companies in the battered software sector, Uber is currently in the difficult position of having to prove that it won’t be disrupted by a still burgeoning new technology.
The Roundhill Magnificent Seven ETF rose 0.2%, helping offset the continuing slide in software stocks, which have been battered over fears that AI will displace their products.
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