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
This time the player in question is Oriel Romeu, who shows great technique to spank a volley past Angus Gunn.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 25, 2022
He also chides West for leaving his orthodontic retainers out on the countertop, a light spank from elder to child.
From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 2022
We might therefore assume that parents who spank are unenlightened in other ways.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
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
McCullum drives another mighty six over long-off, and then spanks an attempted yorker over extra cover for four more.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 5, 2013
It is said that the grizzly bear, who is a very strict mother, often spanks her cubs when she herself has done something foolish.
From The Book of Business Etiquette by Nella Henney
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