Battering
Both words in one sentence
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They also dim or crack when under a heavy battering, or sometimes even blink like a half-broken LCD display.
Source: Power Crystal - The Turbo Toilet 2000 battering the treehouse in a Captain Underpants novel causes the pterodactyl/hamster eggs that are on a table inside it to fall, crack, and release the hybrids within.
Source: Smashed Eggs Hatching -
Heroic B.S.O.D.: Jesse loses it by the end when they cut to a news story that turns out to be about their house being a suspected crack den, with the police brining out a battering ram to get in.
Source: Film / Madhouse
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