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flog

[flog, flawg] / flɒg, flɔg /


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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

Posters to flog tournament tickets would invariably display her image.

From BBC Nov. 25, 2024

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

It also makes the best budget glitter in the business and flogs it for less than a fiver.

From The Guardian Jul. 15, 2017

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

From New York Times Aug. 25, 2014

But the lowness their faces are capable of "flogs Europe."

From Records of Later Life by Kemble, Fanny

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

Needing 254 for victory – a record in this competition - after being flogged around Wankhede Stadium, Bethell hit a scarcely believable 105 from 48 balls to threaten one of England's all-time white-ball victories.

From BBC Mar. 5, 2026

Ben Stokes, England's best seamer, flogged himself with the old ball then gave the second new ball to Potts and Brydon Carse – England's worst seamers.

From BBC Jan. 6, 2026

As well as Cox, who brutally flogged anything short over the leg side, opener Will Jacks also hit three sixes in a 27-ball 45.

From BBC Aug. 25, 2025

We’re lucky to have the jerseys at all, considering each side just flogged them one year from one of the real local clubs or took the discarded ones.

From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak

By the end, the only thing putting a third T20 century in doubt was Sciver-Brunt's flogging of the bowling at the other end.

From BBC Jun. 12, 2026

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

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

From Seattle Times Jan. 29, 2024

Rick Neuheisel was fired after a 50-0 flogging by USC in 2011.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 17, 2023

And if someone had told me at the time that this flogging clergyman was one day to become the Archbishop of Canterbury, I would never have believed it.

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




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