shellacking
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Trade-driven gains for industries such as textiles or jewelry are more than offset, markets-wise, by the shellacking India’s IT outsourcers are taking from the global software selloff.
From Barron's ● Feb. 19, 2026
Just not to the extent that players shook hands once India wrapped up their shellacking.
From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2026
It is the prospect of an almighty shellacking that prompts so many of the conversations about Sir Keir's future.
From BBC ● Dec. 30, 2025
And the Dodgers looked anything but rested and refreshed in Friday’s 11-4 shellacking by the Toronto Blue Jays, which left them trailing a postseason series for the first time since last fall’s NLDS.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2025
I, meanwhile, stayed home on Euclid Avenue, living upstairs from my mother as another leaden Chicago winter descended, shellacking the trees and sidewalks with ice.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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