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
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
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
“It doesn’t matter what I believe. The hospital’s gotta spank somebody, and I was an easy target. It’s just the way things work.”
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
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
But Federer then runs around a forehand and spanks it long.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 17, 2015
An increasingly pivotal Gerrard spanks a shot yards wide.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 17, 2010
"If Sammy Pinkney tries to be a pirate, and carries my Mrs. Eland off in any such horrid way," declared Tess with much energy for her, "I hope his mother spanks him good!"
From The Corner House Girls in a Play How they rehearsed, how they acted, and what the play brought in by Grace Brooks Hill
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