BANGS AWAY Synonyms: 86 Similar and Opposite Words

bangs away

verb

present tense third-person singular of bang away

as in struggles

to devote serious and sustained effort the design team has been banging away at that project for months

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Recent Examples of bangs away To heat-style, blow-dry curtain bangs away from the face, sweeping them from side to side with a paddle brush. — Ariel Wodarcyk, InStyle, 9 June 2026

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Sometimes, though, a team simply struggles to find its footing.

— David Troy OutKick, FOXNews.com, 27 Oct. 2026
This mostly lifeless car struggles every few seconds to get its engine going.

— Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of struggles

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Thoroughly unimpressed by her suburban idyll, and evidently unmoved by her responsibilities as wife and mother, Denise labors in her basement on a novel whose protagonist wishes to forsake her family for a life in New York.

— Peter Tonguette, The Washington Examiner, 22 Aug. 2026
Every man and woman who labors in the construction industry deserves that.

— Tim Dunn, Boston Herald, 5 Mar. 2026

Definition of labors

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In so doing, the tradition could achieve for ASL what the word of the year strives to achieve for English.

— New York Times, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2026
Said soup is being attended to by at least four cooks, as Hal (with helpful coaching by an off-camera Kate) strives to explain himself to Grace back at the embassy, and then the two of them work to get Eidra on-side.

— Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2026

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