flog
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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
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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
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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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