Buffeting

"I can't hear you! The wind is buffeting my ears!" "What?"

The energy crisis buffeting the continent has placed Johnson and other European leaders in the difficult position of decrying fossil fuels while urgently prioritizing affordable access to them to avoid a political backlash by voters and businesses furious at the spiking costs of heating homes and running factories.

Though still early in the afternoon, the ceaseless buffetings of a most tempestuous wind made us feel weary […]

He suspected it was mainly for this that he married her, to be his shield against the world’s buffetings.