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present participle of lash
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verb (2)

present participle of lash

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Recent Examples of lashing
Noun
Blazy’s style is synonymous with slick, sophisticated tailoring, lashings of leather and off-beat accessories — all of which feel a far cry from Chanel’s heritage quilting and bouclé. Leah Dolan, CNN, 12 Dec. 2024 The sandwich itself is local fried snapper, placed between two thick slices of toasted bread and stuffed with cheese and coleslaw before being smothered in lashings of hot sauce. Rebekah Evans, The Week Uk, theweek, 18 Nov. 2024
Verb
Their late father was killed for lashing out against the government, and Gustavo doesn’t share Paco’s willingness to follow in dad’s footsteps. David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 18 Dec. 2024 Their late father was killed for lashing out against the government, and Gustavo doesn’t share Paco’s willingness to follow in dad’s footsteps. David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 18 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for lashing
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lashing
Noun
  • Such invective, coming from a saboteur with firsthand experience of institutional prudishness, put DeGenevieve in a paradoxical position: that of a professor who, because she was tenured, had the luxury of deriding her own ivory tower.
    Jeremy Lybarger, Artforum, 1 Feb. 2025
  • Yet some of us in the audience, disgusted by the persistence of Nazism and anti-immigrant invective in the present, may well appreciate the force of McQueen’s rhetoric.
    Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • The politicization of the COVID response has only worsened this trend, likely resulting in part from Trump’s vituperation.
    Matt Motta, Scientific American, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Flash forward 92-plus years to Donald Trump’s rally Sunday at New York’s Madison Square Garden, a bleak, lurid festival of racist hate and profane vituperation so vile that even fellow Republicans, who have turned a blind eye to Trump’s character for years, are distancing themselves from the event.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • According to the Lee County Sheriff's Office, about 5:15 p.m. Monday, deputies responded to the area's Valley community for a report of a dog attack.
    Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2025
  • But in light of ongoing attacks against PayPal accounts using emails sent from genuine PayPal addresses, how will this help protect you from hackers and scammers?
    Davey Winder, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Beijing has also softened its regulatory assault on Chinese technology companies and the property sector.
    Jacky Wong, WSJ, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Zelenskyy has warned for weeks that Moscow aims to step up its assault after about two months of virtual stalemate along the front line that stretches across the south and east.
    Reuters, NBC News, 31 Jan. 2023
Noun
  • Schwimmer has been vocal on the subject of antisemitism, previously asking Elon Musk to ban Kanye West from X (formerly Twitter) over his antisemitic tirades and actions.
    Steven Zeitchik, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Mar. 2025
  • Instead, the character goes on impassioned tirades about SpongeBob, leading Hernandez to break character a number of times to the betterment of the bit, which is perhaps aimed at recent blind items by Academy Awards voters who have admitted to neglecting certain movies on negligible criteria.
    Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 1 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • That news elicited a strong rebuke from European leaders, who had been secretly planning retaliatory measures since last summer in anticipation of just such action.
    Bob Woods, CNBC, 3 Mar. 2025
  • By that point, however, such rhetoric was commonplace among Russia’s growing movement of neo-imperialists, and a rebuke from the traditional intelligentsia was a badge of honor.
    James Verini, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Censure is a formal and public reprimand issued by a legislative body to express disapproval of a member's actions.
    Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 6 Mar. 2025
  • Censure is an official reprimand that can be undertaken by the House and the Senate for their respective members.
    Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 6 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Focus on professional factors rather than personal criticisms.
    Caroline Castrillon, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025
  • Prominent pro-Israel voices, as well as critics of Israel, defended the movie — or at least called on their allies to tone down the criticism.
    Ben Sales, Sun Sentinel, 10 Mar. 2025

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“Lashing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lashing. Accessed 15 Mar. 2025.

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