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Widower Reg Harris, 85, said giving up driving would "absolutely crucify" his lifestyle.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2025

And to explain his reasoning, Biden used this phrase: “Never crucify yourself on a small cross.”

From Slate ● May 24, 2021

Nazaryan seemingly was trying to crucify the author rather than giving a solid review of the book.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 22, 2021

“We’re behind him 100 percent. Y’all be trying to crucify him and that ain’t right,” Leary said.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 18, 2019

“He does even worse things than crucify people,” Oscar tells us one time.

From "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez

I was born for the purpose that crucifies your mind,

From New York Times ● Apr. 28, 2023

James Glickson New York City It is sacrificial slaughter when society crucifies its best leaders on a cross of impossibly high standards.

From Time Magazine Archive

The multitude which crowns to-day and crucifies to-morrow establishes no standard.

From Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians by Elizabeth Miller

The leader who preaches things out of comprehension arouses the kind of opposition which finally crucifies him.

From The Foundations of Personality by Abraham Myerson

I renounce once for all the alliance of public opinion, and I do not care whether it blesses or crucifies me, whether it calls me emperor or blockhead.

From Andreas Hofer by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

A woman whose dead father was discovered at an undertaker's three months after his funeral says her hellish ordeal has "crucified" her.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

The crucified Christ has been taken down from the cross, but there is no cross, no ladder—only a single cloud and a tiny sliver of earth to ground the composition.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026

"It's the very beginning of Baroque painting, depicting a crucified Christ, isolated, luminous and standing out vividly against a dark and threatening sky," he said.

From Barron's ● Nov. 30, 2025

It’s probably a coincidence that O’Connor was 33 years old when he was cast in the role, the same age that Jesus Christ was crucified.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2025

Behind the college was a massive brownstone armory, and a block away, across the street, was a Catholic church with a huge cross on its lawn upon which was the crucified figure of Jesus.

From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok

“It was the most crucifying pain,” Mr. Nadery recalled.

From New York Times ● Dec. 24, 2021

"The open-close strategy is crucifying businesses," he added.

From BBC ● Dec. 21, 2021

“Instead of out-casting and almost crucifying a personality, you say: ‘Okay, this guy is different, let’s act a certain way, let’s not treat him like a Roger Federer or like a Marin Cilic.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 2, 2021

What I don’t get is crucifying the likes of McCaffrey and Fournette for deciding otherwise.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 21, 2016

The letter to the editor crucifying her husband had hurt her terribly.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger