fustigate

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Verb
  • News round-up Real Madrid set up El Clasico in Spain’s Supercopa by leathering Mallorca 3-0 last night.
    Phil Hay, The Athletic, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Almost from the start, Dharavi was defined by its industries: from the traditional potters of Gujarat who began arriving in the late 1800s, to leather tanners from Tamil Nadu and embroidery workers from Uttar Pradesh.
    Jessie Yeung, CNN, 29 June 2024
Verb
  • Furnishings vary from room to room, featuring different styles of settees, including some made from caning and wicker materials.
    Lori Weisberg, The Mercury News, 7 Feb. 2025
  • The abolitionist Massachusetts senator Charles Sumner was caned nearly to death on the floor of the Senate in 1856.
    Kori Schake, Foreign Affairs, 16 Apr. 2019
Verb
  • Experts advise against strapping a car seat to the aisle seat, because babies could be injured during food and drink services if a hot item spills.
    Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Byron was then spotted on the broadcast with a WWE championship strapped onto his shoulder.
    Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 27 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Sylvia scourges herself with an intensity that would make hairshirted flagellants seem soft.
    Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Social instability and post-pandemic economic pressures fueled surges in migration across the world. 2023 will probably be the hottest year on record, with heat waves scourging every continent, accompanied by other extreme climactic events.
    Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2023
Verb
  • Instead, the goal is to box out China and strengthen U.S. economic security and national security by securing support from Canada and Mexico.
    Jason Schenker, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
  • The Philadelphia Eagles also sold a minority stake, though not to private equity, in a deal that valued the Super Bowl LIX champs at $8.3 billion. Between the lines: Many NFL teams are owned by families and wealthy individuals with no intention of leaving the owners box any time soon.
    Tim Baysinger, Axios, 20 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Designed to navigate both narrow nooks and wide swaths of body hair, these tools require less prep than razor-shaving, can be used wet or dry, and whack weeds with ease.
    Annie Blackman, Allure, 1 Mar. 2025
  • The Zipper Carry-on Max proved very durable in our tests, showing only minor superficial scuffs and no dents at all after whacking it with a metal baseball bat and shoving it multiple times off a table while fully packed.
    Theresa Holland, Travel + Leisure, 11 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Yates took his anger out on a chair, smacking the bench, the redshirt freshman guard dropping 18 points and three threes to little avail.
    Luca Evans, Orange County Register, 15 Feb. 2025
  • For the last three weeks, Democrats up and down the seniority list have been stuck playing an especially frustrating game of Whac-a-Mole: smack the outrage of the hour and then race to hit the next one, never quite leveling the field.
    Philip Elliott, TIME, 14 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Stephens would do well to stop flagellating himself and the Never Trumpers and instead join democracy advocates in defending the rule of law in a dangerous new world.
    DP Opinion, The Denver Post, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Pop stars being badasses, as ever, but expressing doubt, and doing it without the flagellating self-destruction that might have come with an early iteration.
    Susannah Felts, Longreads, 27 Apr. 2023
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“Fustigate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fustigate. Accessed 16 Mar. 2025.

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