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as in hammering

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verb

present participle of paste

as in whipping

to defeat by a large margin with the economy having gone south, it was hardly surprising that the incumbent party got pasted in the general election

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as in slapping

to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner pasted the soccer ball halfway across the field

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To be clear, do yourself a favor and don’t ruin your March by copying a pasting a Golden bracket. —

Cedric Golden, Austin American Statesman, 17 Mar. 2026 Transfers that could happen Arsenal gave Leeds United a pasting in the Premier League on Saturday, cantering to a 4-0 win at Elland Road, but there was bad news at the end of it. —

Phil Hay, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2026

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Some of these trolls are merely pasting swastikas on their nihilism, but their ideological sincerity is irrelevant. —

Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, 23 Feb. 2026 Otlet first experimented with cutting lines out of books and pasting them onto index cards. —

Big Think, 9 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for pasting

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Wrexham were fourth bottom of the fledgling table after the third of those three losses, a 3-1 hammering by Queens Park Rangers.

— Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 6 May 2026
That's the part worth hammering, not that Nike is greedy or calculating.

— Dan Zaksheske OutKick, FOXNews.com, 1 May 2026