lash
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“Our full training in the summer helps us support kids that are actively experiencing trauma; they may have behavioral issues and we don’t want to lash out back,” eighth-grade teacher Melody Stambaugh said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
Characters forced to make do either lash out, like raging overreactors on Lee Sung Jin’s petty, brutal “Beef,” or fall into holding patterns, like the unlucky in love leads of Issa Rae’s dramedy “Insecure.”
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026
Safe adhesives, like lash glue, will keep it in place.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
The crews use mooring ropes to lash the ships as close as 11 feet from each other so that they roll in the waves together.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
This was more than I had hitherto endured, even from her, but the swift lash of his reply was unexpected.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
Entire communities have been swept away, leaving families homeless and using makeshift shelters as heavy rain lashes down.
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
The paranoid chart-topper lashes out at his close associates and rivals alike.
From Salon ● May 21, 2026
Over her lifetime, she has been arrested 13 times and been sentenced to a total of 31 years in prison and 154 lashes, according to her foundation.
From BBC ● May 2, 2026
The solid, stolid, self-satisfied Edwardian England that had seemed so deserving of his lashes was itself now wounded, and something in Galsworthy shifted accordingly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
She had gray-blue eyes, long black lashes, a tilted-up nose, a big smiley mouth, and thick wavy brown hair piled high and perky on her head.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
Vocabulary lists containing lash
"Ain't I a Woman?"
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