- present participle of paste.
pasting
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Canny readers, meanwhile, practiced scrapbooking—clipping and pasting newspaper articles for future reference.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
A pasting at the hands of Paris Saint-Germain might have coloured their last European campaign but Inter got to that final by seeing off Bayern Munich and Barcelona in epic knockout ties.
From Barron's ● Feb. 24, 2026
Some are nicknamed jumping genes because they literally jump around, copying and pasting themselves into different parts of our genome just as if they were still viral invaders.
From Salon ● Jun. 1, 2025
There is hope in senior circles that the review, together with big infrastructure plans, can be used to create a summer of good news, after many months of taking a pasting.
From BBC ● May 24, 2025
There they all were now, the cream of the school, the lights and leaders of the senior class, with their high I.Q.’s and expensive shoes, as Brinker had said, pasting each other with snowballs.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
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