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
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
That’s the thing with the pros; they’d spank us at crazy golf as well.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 25, 2019
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
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
But Federer then runs around a forehand and spanks it long.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 17, 2015
That misguided woman denudes him, washes him, rubs soap into his eyes, spanks him, re-arrays him, and sets him in a clean place, giving him a teaspoon to play with.
From Such Is Life by Joseph Furphy
