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From then on, he curbed his aggressive instincts to support Gill, but could not resist one straight flay off Bashir for six.

From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2025

This isn’t to criticize the family, but to flay CNN, which should have reported the factual context of the household’s inflation experience.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2021

Having talked his way into an exclusive interview with billionaire Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., Wilder proceeded to flay him:

From Washington Post ● Apr. 27, 2021

But coronavirus fears continue to flay stocks that are heavily exposed to China or sell to Australia’s debt-laden consumers.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 24, 2020

It was a delicate process because I didn't want to flay the skin off my fingers.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

With surgical precision and raucous glee, Row flays his characters and exposes their smugness.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 30, 2023

He similarly flays the response to the recent documentary about Michael Jackson and riskily spotlights a ten-year-old kid sitting in the front row.

From The New Yorker ● Jul. 13, 2019

He chills out with a single to deep cover, then Smith flays a cut behind point for four.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 25, 2016

Frank, who scripted the crime movies Dead Again, Get Shorty and Out of Sight, flays the Block novel of Scudder’s support group: his AA sponsor Jim Faber, the barkeep Mick Ballou.

From Time ● Sep. 18, 2014

With it the Danákil builds his house; with it he slays the animal, and flays the carcase.

From The Highlands of Ethiopia by William Cornwallis Harris

Anderson flayed a boundary to make it two to win but then gloved a Neil Wagner short ball down leg.

From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026

The firm was flayed in 2018 by federal Judge Royce C. Lamberth of Washington, D.C., for engaging in what he labeled a “high-tech shakedown ... smacking of extortion.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026

One of his recurring subjects was meat, from flayed rabbits to rayfish, with odorous side effects.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025

The students plastered Dean Martinez’s classroom last week with flyers saying that the protesters were exercising their First Amendment right to engage in “counter-speech,” an argument flayed by Judge Duncan.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 24, 2023

He groaned and his hands flayed the air to ward off an invisible danger.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright

Khawaja had five when he nicked a flaying drive off Josh Tongue to second slip, where Brook shelled a tough chance but one he would expect to take.

From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2025

Both the show, which employed different hosts over the years, and Carlson’s contract, were canceled not long after, by some accounts as a direct result of the flaying.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2021

By combining rapid-fire wordplay, historical japery, the subversion of middle-class mores and the flaying of upper-class twits, Monty Python “took silliness to renaissance levels,” Thompson said.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 22, 2020

For your sins, Bryan Cranston is all but flaying the skin off his body, night after night at the Belasco Theater.

From New York Times ● Dec. 7, 2018

Gradually, in the small hours of the morning, the wind stopped flaying them and began to taper off.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong