drubbing

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Reduced to 40 percent of seats after a drubbing in the 2024 general election, Nelson Mandela's former liberation movement has been forced into an often-uneasy coalition with nine other parties.

From Barron's • May 8, 2026

Instead, they got the experimental “All Shook Up,” which has aged well despite the critical drubbing it received at the time.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026

Grant did not avoid responsibility for the drubbing he’d just taken.

From Slate • Apr. 13, 2026

Broadcom’s stock rose in after-hours trading Wednesday following its fiscal first-quarter report, but that comes on the heels of a drubbing the shares have taken of late.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026

She gave me a nice drubbing when I finally turned up with it.

From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak