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“We have a red-flag system here, where if there’s anything that gets really out of whack, they can immediately tag the milk, and it doesn’t go to anything but cheese,” McAfee told me.

From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026

“It doesn’t have to be: OK, you can’t touch the tree, or, we’re going to whack the tree back so much that you can’t stand to look at it,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026

“My immune system and digestive system got all out of whack over the past couple of three years,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2026

Trump later told reporters that a gunman he described as a "lone wolf" and a "whack job" had charged through security screening just outside the ballroom.

From Barron's ● Apr. 26, 2026

Nelson shows her how to stand, close one eye, and whack her arrow trembling into the heart of a leaf.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

They keep count as Raffy whacks a baobab fruit eight times or note which arm he uses to do so -- although chimps are normally left-handed.

From Barron's ● Jan. 15, 2026

Speculative effort from Martina Piemonte, who from around 40 yards out whacks the ball towards the Arsenal goal.

From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2024

Twisp resident Bill Moody knows this reality better than most as he weed whacks a 20-foot firebreak around his house on a June afternoon.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 9, 2023

Next to a concrete-block outhouse, he whacks balls off a tee using a crude bat fashioned from a tree branch.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2023

Then pulls out another nail, whacks it in in one stroke.

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz

Indeed, as the band, including Jim James of My Morning Jacket, Lewis and Schwartzman, performed the Bobby Fuller Four’s single “Let Her Dance,” Murray indeed whacked the hell out of that thing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2026

In other words, even though businesses no longer have to pay the emergency tariffs, they are still getting whacked by sundry other border taxes, including his national-security tariffs on steel, aluminum, autos, lumber and more.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026

The match went down to the final over but Sam Curran duly whacked Janith Liyanage for six to wrap up the win with two balls to spare.

From BBC ● Feb. 1, 2026

The latest market driver is his selection of Kevin Warsh as the next Federal Reserve boss, which has lifted the dollar, hit bond prices and whacked precious metals.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 30, 2026

I bounced off the walls and my scythe whacked some pictures sideways.

From "Dead End in Norvelt" by Jack Gantos

Two big loans that were made during the postpandemic boom in private-equity buyouts are defaulting, whacking some private-credit funds and ratcheting up losses in the already troubled corner of Wall Street.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

From repeatedly whacking steel with a heavy hammer to sitting sweat-drenched by a hearth for hours, the daily grind of blademaking is also not for the faint-hearted.

From Barron's ● Feb. 11, 2026

Ellie Kildunne, whose concussion symptoms must have eased judging by the way she was whacking a pitchside drum, has more obvious stardust to her game.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2025

By the time Pages added to the lead in the seventh, whacking his 18th of the season deep to left, the game was already in hand.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2025

“Well, I wouldn’t just start whacking at it or we might be dead before noon. We need to be careful. Delicate, precise hits on the clasps.”

From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner