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Recent Examples of horsewhip The Speccie’s star columnist is the rudest man in Christendom, the Godzilla of contumely, an all-time non-sufferer of fools who horsewhips his targets the way Hunter S. Thompson and Christopher Hitchens once did. Kyle Smith, National Review, 23 Apr. 2020 In reality, Watson wasn’t a bar fighter or famous for horsewhipping cowboys. Eliza McGraw, Smithsonian, 12 Mar. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for horsewhip
Verb
  • The comet will also whip by Mars on October 2 at 18 million miles (30 million kilometers) from the red planet.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 3 July 2025
  • An Italian meringue involves carefully and slowly drizzling a hot sugar syrup into egg whites while whipping them.
    Susan Selasky, Freep.com, 3 July 2025
Verb
  • Eight airports in different states appeared to have dropped the requirement, in place since 2006 after a British man in 2001 attempted to destroy an airliner with explosives hidden in a shoe.
    semafor.com, semafor.com, 8 July 2025
  • The Transportation Security Administration adopted the no-shoes rule in 2006 after a British man boarded a 2001 American Airlines flight with explosives hidden in a shoe.
    Patricia Gallagher Newberry, The Enquirer, 8 July 2025
Verb
  • Trump also suggested that the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE — the cost-cutting division unpopular among Americans that Musk led before exiting the administration in late May — might consider slashing incentives that Musk’s companies receive from the U.S. government.
    Todd Spangler, Variety, 1 July 2025
  • Norms are being shattered, aid budgets for the poorest and most vulnerable are being slashed, and for the first time in a generation, extreme poverty has been on the rise.
    Michael Sheldrick, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
Verb
  • Underneath her coat, Witherspoon wore an ankle-length black skirt and leather round-toe boots.
    Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 28 Jan. 2025
  • Compare with the Met’s full-size cast, from 1985, and these miniatures cleave the collective anguish into distinct emotions — one figure seems mid-dance, one bored, another ecstatic — in a range of patinas, from dark chocolate to leather.
    Walker Mimms, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • In one particularly jarring example, under threat of being unplugged, Anthropic’s latest creation Claude 4 lashed back by blackmailing an engineer and threatened to reveal an extramarital affair.
    Thomas Urbain, Fortune, 29 June 2025
  • The president also lashed out at economists who predicted his administration’s tariffs could cause a recession.
    Francesca Chambers, USA Today, 28 June 2025

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“Horsewhip.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/horsewhip. Accessed 11 Jul. 2025.

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