spank
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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
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
I’ve come a long way—I very rarely yell, never spank, and I’m generally responsive and caring.
From Slate ● May 18, 2021
November saw Tottenham spank Chelsea at Wembley and Manchester City claim victory in the first Manchester derby of the season.
From The Guardian ● May 14, 2019
Nobody would ever spank a kid who’d had a dead horse fall on him.
From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith
Kecmanovic, though, spanks a forehand into the corner then a backhand onto the sideline to save it, only to tamely go wide shortly afterwards; can he do it again?
From The Guardian ● Jan. 23, 2022
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
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
The bears disappeared in the direction from which they had come, the cubs urged on with spanks from behind as all vanished in the falling snow.
From Wild Life on the Rockies by Enos Abijah Mills
