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corporal

[kawr-per-uhl, -pruhl] / ˈkɔr pər əl, -prəl /


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With his older brother John, he ran a school, having left a previous teaching post from a disinclination to administer corporal punishment.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026

Brydson, an ex-army corporal from Renfrew, was housemaster at Monken Hadley.

From BBC • Jan. 29, 2026

When Lai was eventually rotated out of the presidential-offices detail and risked losing access to lucrative intelligence, he recruited another sergeant and a corporal in his battalion to take over.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026

Banning corporal punishment also had been a primary demand of student and teacher activists who took part in widespread Latino student walkouts from L.A. schools in 1968.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2025

Briony had seen them bring the corporal in.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan




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