spank
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But quality with the corner for Casemiro's goal and then that free-kick - you get in team of the week if you spank one of them in the top bin.
From BBC ● Dec. 15, 2025
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
“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
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
They don’t spank us or rap us on the knuckles with rulers or wash our mouths out with soap, all of that stuff you read about in old-fashioned books.
From "P.S. I Miss You" by Jen Petro-Roy
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
The ball runs towards Davies, who spanks a first-time shot over the bar from a tight angle.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 2, 2021
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
Then nobody spanks anybody any more and there is peace.
From A Study of Fairy Tales by Kready, Laura F.
