as in to crucify
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Farren referred to the two thieves who were crucified with Jesus.—
Lawrence Wright,
The New Yorker,
10 Feb. 2025 -
In the good old, bad old days, economies were ‘crucified on a cross of gold’ and one only needs to read up on the ‘free silver’ movement in the US late 1800s to see that all that glitters is not necessarily good currency.—
Clem Chambers,
Forbes,
22 Jan. 2025
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Legal eagles on social media were eager to point out the hiccups in the formatting and more than a few typos that were cleaned-up on the White House’s website before they got pilloried too badly.—
Philip Elliott,
TIME,
22 Jan. 2025
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The Republican former president, appearing on a video feed 10 days before he is inaugurated, again pilloried the case, the only one of his four criminal indictments that has gone to trial and possibly the only one that ever will.—
Michelle L. Price,
Chicago Tribune,
10 Jan. 2025
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Linda lashes out at everyone, a bottomless pit of emotional need, and takes refuge in drugs and alcohol.—
Taylor Antrim,
Vogue,
3 Feb. 2025
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Trump has lashed out at the fees U.S. shipping pays to use the canal but seems most animated by the involvement of a Chinese company in its operations.—
Simon Lewis and Matt Spetalnick,
USA TODAY,
1 Feb. 2025
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If the robot, who frequently metamorphoses, gives shape to some form of justice, it’s flayed down to a name.—
Elisa Gonzalez,
The New Yorker,
3 Feb. 2025
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The upper fangs sank into Wyatt’s left cheek, just below his eye socket, the lower into his top lip and right nostril, flaying his face in four separate places.—
Malcolm Brooks Malcolm Hillgartner Krish Seenivasan Zak Mouton,
New York Times,
31 Dec. 2024
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In the wake of the extreme wildfires that destroyed more than 12,000 homes and buildings, some are blaming the destruction squarely on that.—
Lauren Sommer,
NPR,
11 Feb. 2025
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After the 2023 Supreme Court ruling, which deemed affirmative action in university admissions unconstitutional, attacks on DEI proliferated, and the term became a right-wing bogeyman blamed for almost anything that goes wrong in any workplace.—
Kizzy Cox,
Essence,
11 Feb. 2025
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At one point, an appalled Robinson came outside to scold her daughter.—
Rachel DeSantis,
People.com,
13 Feb. 2025
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On the other side of the FaceTime call is none other than Set It Off star Vivica Fox, who scolds Glo for sleeping in.—
Michael Saponara,
Billboard,
4 Feb. 2025
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The brief interview created a furious reaction online, with the likes of Dionne Warwick and Khloé Kardashian upbraiding the journalists for treating Babyface so disrespectfully.—
Abid Rahman,
The Hollywood Reporter,
3 Sep. 2019
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That starts with upbraiding Chapman’s would-be assassin, who’s still nursing injuries from being run over by a taxicab — this after handling three other agents quite capably.—
Scott Tobias,
Vulture,
25 Sep. 2024
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During the 1930s, while the country was suffering through a relentless economic depression, The New Yorker was sometimes faulted for blithely ignoring the seriousness of the nation’s problems.—
Christopher B. Daly,
The Conversation,
11 Feb. 2025
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None faults visitors for wanting to enjoy themselves.—
Dakin Andone,
CNN,
7 Feb. 2025
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“Gibbet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gibbet. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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