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Kennedy, pictured at the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2023, says anyone should "give anything they fancy a lash"

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

In an era in which everyone howls about everything, and ranting in public is considered negotiation, head coach Lance Taylor refused to lash out.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

“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

A shriek rose over the lash of the storm.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi

Entire communities have been swept away, leaving families homeless and using makeshift shelters as heavy rain lashes down.

From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026

She makes videos “questioning” the existence of dinosaurs and then lashes out at the people who inevitably make fun of her for this.

From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2026

Harris also shows us the burn scars that ripple up Racine’s arm and across Anaia’s face, textured skin that makes strangers blanch, to which Racine lashes out defensively.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 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

The shadows bring out the sharpness of his bones, the length of his lashes, the merciless beauty of his face.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black