spank
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There’s plenty of time for the market to spank Musk even more than it has the past few months.
From Slate ● May 1, 2025
Liverpool are not just in the top half, they are a top team and they are in top spot - and they are going to spank them.
From BBC ● Dec. 14, 2023
“Are you going to spank me for lying — not for dropping out?” thinks David in adulthood, after belatedly informing his parents that he’s ditched the master’s program in Harvard’s Department of Soviet Studies.
From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2022
Putin responded that “it’s better not to spank children and not to cite traditions,” but agreed that “unceremonious interference with the family is unacceptable,” and promised to review the law.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 14, 2021
Nobody would ever spank a kid who’d had a dead horse fall on him.
From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith
Perhaps it’s because it’s by and about women that it spanks the whole bunch of “prestigious” puzzle TV shows, by never letting the puzzle swamp its characters or their psychologies.
From Slate ● Jan. 31, 2019
For another thing, the movie effectively spanks snobs who claim that people aren’t into books anymore.
From Washington Post ● May 21, 2018
He pounces on a forehand from Goffin and spanks a volley away - leave it to me, he says - and then he dinks a backhand volley away!
From The Guardian ● Nov. 28, 2015
But Federer then runs around a forehand and spanks it long.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 17, 2015
Then that tot raises his small hand and spanks the huge buffalo on the jaw.
From The Wonders of the Jungle Book One by Sarath Kumar Ghosh
