slap
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It’s a stinging insult: By the samurai code, Kanbei should be killed, not imprisoned — Murashige couldn’t have landed a more devastating slap than by letting him live.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
Mayor Karen Bass decried the application as “a slap in the face” to the families of Boyle Heights.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
PC Harper's mother Debbie Adlam said it felt "like a slap in the face"
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
In a society that’s defined by endless consumption of content, it is easy to absorb philosophies on a surface level, giving Gen Z performative labels to slap on.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
I slap the spoon down on the table, and little grains of rice fly around me.
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
I was slapped with a bill for $1,022 for this year’s tests.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
The label gets slapped on funds that do not agree on what “green” or “responsible” even means, and two ESG funds can hold completely different companies.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 6, 2026
Although Brussels proposed the levy last year, some EU member states did not want to wait and slapped their own duties.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
Promotional material for the tumbler used the phrase "tak on the table!" in Korean, using a word that sounds like an object being slapped on a table.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026
Frederick and Bruno helped him, but the miller slapped their hands if they lingered on the skeins too long.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
“If it’s just slapping a brand name on a pre-existing screen, that feels very deceptive and dishonest to me,” Storch said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026
What doesn’t work are gimmicks like slapping protein into old brands.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
A few rows away, Hernandez, the El Pasoan decked in a black Mexican jersey, was slapping high-fives with strangers around him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2026
Brussels has also taken several steps to protect its market from what it describes as unfair Chinese competition, including slapping extra levies on small parcels from China.
From Barron's ● May 22, 2026
Nate asked, raising his voice up over the singing and knee slapping.
From I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 by Lauren Tarshis
