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were barging
  • past progressive of barge.

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Most women were silent on such issues due to stigma, she said, but when a boy told her security forces were barging into his home and harassing his mother, she went to investigate.

From The Guardian • Sep. 20, 2019

Inevitably, the trucks and heavy combat vehicles of the 187th were barging into some of the olive trees causing damage, and there was the question of compensation for the Lebanese olive growers.

From Time Magazine Archive

While you were barging around caves, I was making change at the bank.

From The Caves of Fear by Goodwin, Harold L. (Harold Leland)