stinging

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He briefly responded in the fourth, hurting Verhoeven with a straight right and stinging left.

From BBC • May 23, 2026

Nathan Hochman and the union that represents rank-and-file police officers offered a stinging rebuke of embattled City Atty.

From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2026

The Muse Spark launch also comes just two weeks after a pair of stinging court losses.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026

Justice Sonia Sotomayor made that clear in her stinging and persuasive dissent from the court’s denial of certiorari.

From Slate • Mar. 27, 2026

They sailed through the air as the river churned and wailed below them, splashing Annabeth’s bare ankles with stinging brine.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan