smite
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“Curtis and I served together in the state Senate, he is your state senator. He is Republican. I am a Democrat. But when we team up in a bipartisan manner, we will smite evil.”
From Seattle Times • Mar. 25, 2024
On it, we hear a 31-year-old woman impersonating her 19-year-old self reflecting on her 15-year-old self, and doing it all to smite the men who hoped to seize control of her songs.
From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2021
Will he lose his head, or is the Green Knight’s bark worse than his smite?
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 29, 2021
A number of religious texts speak of stones from heaven, which sometimes arrived at opportune moments to smite the enemies of the authors of those texts.
From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016
What a surprise it must be to the Congolese to hear that brave David, who intended to smite the mighty Goliath, was actually jumping around pinching back plants, or worse.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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The Hobbit
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