shellacking
Example Sentences
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Trade-driven gains for industries such as textiles or jewelry are more than offset, markets-wise, by the shellacking India’s IT outsourcers are taking from the global software selloff.
From Barron's • Feb. 19, 2026
Then they marched into Mercedes-Benz Stadium on Saturday afternoon and found themselves on the wrong end of a 28-7 shellacking by Georgia.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 7, 2025
Then, in early 1983, six months out from what was expected to be another shellacking in the US, Jacklin was asked to captain the side.
From BBC • Sep. 23, 2025
“We needed that,” he said, “to help us get over that shellacking we took in Game 2.”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 13, 2024
He once coxed a Washington crew to a humiliating fifteen-length shellacking of California.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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