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
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
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
Barney Ronay Vardy spanks it past Mignolet on the run.
From The Guardian ● May 15, 2016
Her face when she spanks a forehand long on the next point is a picture of agonised frustration.
From The Guardian ● May 30, 2015
"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
