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birched

verb

past tense of birch

as in whipped

to strike repeatedly with something long and thin or flexible students at the private school were once routinely birched for violating the rules

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to strike repeatedly always a stern disciplinarian, our father birched anyone who talked back

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After learning that Manchester whipped Maggie with a cat-o’-nine-tails, Lizzie agrees to help the Borden family’s maid kill her.

— Samantha Stutsman, PEOPLE, 18 Sep. 2026
That sort of whipped, inswinging ball from Slater that caused so much havoc is hugely familiar to avid Premier League watchers.

— Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026

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Tuxedo kitten Paolina bounced onto my chest and licked my fingers.

— Solvej Schou, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2026
Her entire face got licked clean off her head when suburban floodwaters breached the cardboard hull protecting Kath’s basement memorabilia stack a few months before I was born.

— Claire Carusillo, Harpers Magazine, 4 Aug. 2026

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The carrier also slashed earnings for basic economy flights, following earlier changes to the same practice by American Airlines and Delta Air Lines.

— Caleigh Keating, CNBC, 13 Oct. 2026
The second man pulled a knife and slashed the first in the abdomen, police said.

— Adam Harrington, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2026

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Smith is said to have thrashed and thrashed in the death chamber.

— Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2026
The flooding on the canyon floor started Saturday afternoon after waves of rainfall thrashed Bright Angel Canyon and Phantom Ranch – the only lodging under the rim of the Grand Canyon.

— Maria Aguilar Prieto, CNN Money, 30 Aug. 2026

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Russian missile and drone attacks killed five people in Kyiv and left at least 600,000 without power, as strikes battered the capital’s energy infrastructure for a third night.

— Hanna Arhirova, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026
The storm battered the coast over the weekend with wind, rain and unusually large waves, which tore apart a historic boardwalk and smashed into coastal homes.

— JAIMIE DING, Arkansas Online, 13 Oct. 2026

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