: the action of hazing
especially
: an initiation process involving harassment
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Parker’s series starts out with too much bellowing and yelling along with hazing and bullying but loosens up and broadens out to peer into the lives of other recruits who are wrestling with demons and sometimes each other.
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Randy Myers, Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2025
Meanwhile, The Line is all about frat bros, hazing, and the tolls of harassment – not what listeners usually associate with the Grizzly Bear sound.
—Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 10 Oct. 2025
In 2015, the university placed SAE on a one-year warning for hazing, and in January 2018, the fraternity was put on probation following a new hazing investigation.
—Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 9 Oct. 2025
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday called for a sweeping overhaul of how the military handles allegations of hazing and other types of abuse, insisting that the military had grown too soft and promising to expunge the records of tough leaders with past infractions.
—Anne Flaherty, ABC News, 30 Sep. 2025
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Randy Myers, Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2025
Meanwhile, The Line is all about frat bros, hazing, and the tolls of harassment – not what listeners usually associate with the Grizzly Bear sound.
—Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 10 Oct. 2025
In 2015, the university placed SAE on a one-year warning for hazing, and in January 2018, the fraternity was put on probation following a new hazing investigation.
—Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 9 Oct. 2025
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday called for a sweeping overhaul of how the military handles allegations of hazing and other types of abuse, insisting that the military had grown too soft and promising to expunge the records of tough leaders with past infractions.
—Anne Flaherty, ABC News, 30 Sep. 2025
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“Hazing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hazing. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.
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