spank
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Liverpool are not just in the top half, they are a top team and they are in top spot - and they are going to spank them.
From BBC ● Dec. 14, 2023
“Are you going to spank me for lying — not for dropping out?” thinks David in adulthood, after belatedly informing his parents that he’s ditched the master’s program in Harvard’s Department of Soviet Studies.
From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2022
This time the player in question is Oriel Romeu, who shows great technique to spank a volley past Angus Gunn.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 25, 2022
Putin responded that “it’s better not to spank children and not to cite traditions,” but agreed that “unceremonious interference with the family is unacceptable,” and promised to review the law.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 14, 2021
We might therefore assume that parents who spank are unenlightened in other ways.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
Perhaps it’s because it’s by and about women that it spanks the whole bunch of “prestigious” puzzle TV shows, by never letting the puzzle swamp its characters or their psychologies.
From Slate ● Jan. 31, 2019
For another thing, the movie effectively spanks snobs who claim that people aren’t into books anymore.
From Washington Post ● May 21, 2018
But Federer then runs around a forehand and spanks it long.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 17, 2015
BST12:25 23 min: Whelan puts his foot on the ball in midfield, surveys his options, then spanks it into the stands.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 13, 2015
It is said that the grizzly bear, who is a very strict mother, often spanks her cubs when she herself has done something foolish.
From The Book of Business Etiquette by Henney, Nella
