earful
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Ask any basketball coach you know and they’ll give you an earful about the attrition of whole-court vision and underappreciated talents like moving without the ball.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
Atkins remains optimistic about her adopted home state, notwithstanding her unsuccessful run for governor and the earful of criticisms she heard along the way,
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 22, 2025
I was about to get an earful on the book’s background and a postage-paid primer on my own writing life.
From Salon • Feb. 9, 2025
Did Michelle stay home specifically so she wouldn’t have to get an earful from Trump?
From Slate • Jan. 9, 2025
At Miss Leefolt's, they’s lots a extra talking on the telephone that week, lot a head-nodding like Miss Leefolt getting a earful from Miss Hilly.
From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
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