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Valued at $852 billion, OpenAI does not need to flog $45 Bloop-the-bot-covered tote bags that say “Building Things.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

You’re not out to fleece anyone with egregiously high commissions or merely befriend another member because you want to flog the latest financial product.

From MarketWatch ● May 29, 2026

“If you’re right here at the top of the curve, functioning at a high level, if I flog your nicotinic receptors, you’re actually going to have a decline in performance,” he adds.

From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2025

They are a Thing Unto Themselves, these ads, an art almost irrelevant to the products they flog — sometimes barely mentioned, often easy to forget.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2023

“Half the time you don’t even bother locking it. You’re probably hoping someone’ll flog it so you can collect the insurance.”

From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak

And it has a sense of humor, opening with a sidewalk preacher who flogs her Bible app.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2025

Hawley's character are as outsized as ever, and the mythical Fahr-goh accent still flogs the ear – but the overwrought, flowery speeches that drowned the 2020 season aren’t as overwhelming.

From Salon ● Nov. 21, 2023

Perhaps Malkovich’s best-known film is Being John Malkovich – the brilliant absurdist comedy in which a puppeteer discovers a portal into the actor’s head and then flogs tickets for it to the public.

From The Guardian ● May 21, 2020

There’s an equally queasy undercurrent in “Shattered Glass,” which flogs a glass ceiling metaphor.

From New York Times ● Aug. 25, 2014

An offsider is a bullock-drivers assistant—one who walks on the off-side of the team and flogs the bullocks on that side when occasion arises.

From The Old Bush Songs by A. B. (Andrew Barton) Paterson

Model Lauren Hutton valiantly flogged Pepsi Light—“One calorie!”—but it didn’t last on the market, steamrolled by aspartame, a new sweetener, and the Diet Coke juggernaut.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

Afterwards she flogged eight fours that were rarely pretty but effective.

From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026

Scores of bare-chested flagellants with covered faces walked barefoot through the dusty streets of Pampanga province's San Fernando as they flogged their backs with bamboo whips in scorching heat.

From Barron's ● Apr. 3, 2026

Labour's Polly Billington, MP for East Thanet, said performance spaces needed to be "treasured and preserved, not flogged off".

From BBC ● Dec. 9, 2025

He never flogged me, thank goodness, but I was given a vivid description of one of these ceremonies by my best friend at Repton, whose name was Michael.

From "Boy: Tales of a Childhood" by Roald Dahl

But opportunities like last week’s flogging of the new Porsche 911 Turbo S on Circuito Ascari are rare and require considerable schlepping.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2025

Remarkably, he took only eight runs from his first eight balls before flogging Singh Dale over the leg side for his first three boundaries.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2025

After witnessing a sailor’s flogging, Cândido led a revolt against regular whipping by officers in 1910.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 29, 2024

With that kind of all-hands-on-deck flogging of the lie, what's surprising is how the nonsense is not even more popular.

From Salon ● Jan. 5, 2024

Of the twelve members of the committee, five were elsewhere, flogging some or another piece of legislation.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel