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

North Carolina’s season began on Labor Day with a 48-14 shellacking by TCU in prime time.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 7, 2025

England eventually ended with their second-largest ODI victory in terms of runs, just behind a 242-run shellacking of Australia at Trent Bridge in 2018.

From BBC • May 29, 2025

“We needed that,” he said, “to help us get over that shellacking we took in Game 2.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 13, 2024

He once coxed a Washington crew to a humiliating fifteen-length shellacking of California.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown