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Noun
Then — and this is important — she gets conked on the head and wakes up in an entirely different movie.—Jordan Hoffman, EW.com, 4 June 2025 Could there be any truth to the fan theory that Greg was hiding on the boat when Tanya killed Quentin and his minions, then fatally conked herself in the head while escaping?—Judy Berman, TIME, 17 Feb. 2025 River was saved, in a sense, by getting conked in the back of his head, which took him away from the clutches of Hugo Weaving’s Frank Harkness and into the clutches of Natasha (Coralie Audret), who’s anxious to know what brought him into town.—Scott Tobias, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2024 According to rumors, a blazing row on the terrace of their hotel – the San Domenico Palace – ended when Taylor conked Burton on the head with a mandolin.—John Bleasdale, Variety, 18 June 2023 The engine might conk out.—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 19 Oct. 2021 His team had sputtered and whirred to life only to conk out in spectacular fashion.—Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2021 While some little ones conk out as soon as the engine starts, others have a difficult time being in the car for hours—or any time at all.—Amy Marturana Winderl, SELF, 26 Oct. 2020 Why would a woman who has only a stun gun for protection get involved with large amounts of cash and shady strangers, any of whom could simply conk her on the head and rob her?—Kyle Smith, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2022
Verb
On the way to the conk pad, Mike runs over the f–ing show!—Jim Ryan, Forbes.com, 24 May 2025 That’s what the slick dude with the conk and the blue Pontiac says to Elwood, who is hitching a ride to get to college.—Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2024 Everybody had a new car and a conk.—New York Times, 27 Oct. 2021 The spectral and the barely discernible devotions become manifest as Holy Ghost, though also borne in Malcolm X’s stance and the Godfather of Soul’s conk.—Saidiya Hartman, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2023 This is a fungal conk, probably from the genus Ganoderma, although that’s not my field of expertise.—Neil Sperry, ExpressNews.com, 8 Oct. 2020
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Felipe Schrieberg,
Forbes.com,
26 June 2025
Breathing through the nose helps people absorb more oxygen, according to Todd Anderson, sleep and wellness expert and founder of Dream Performance & Recovery in Nashville.
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Ajdina Halilovic,
Quanta Magazine,
7 May 2025
Just before Louise gets kidnapped off the street, Joe — who was, conveniently, stalking her at the time — swoops in to brain that dude with a brick.
Suárez fell behind 3-0 in the count to Ohtani, and on the next pitch, Suárez beaned Ohtani with a 100 mph fastball to the right shoulder.
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Jackson Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
21 June 2025
It’s been an eventful couple of weeks for Brady, who accidentally beaned a media buyer with an errant pass meant for Rob Gronkowski during Fox’s May 12 upfront presentation in New York.
Visuals also showed some people receiving CPR. Uncontrollable crowd
Police started caning people at one gate, leading to more chaos, said Mithun Singh, a software engineer among the crowd.
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USA Today,
USA Today,
5 June 2025
Both failed to fire, and the hero of the Battle of New Orleans, with a hair-trigger temper, began caning the would-be assassin.
Hitler exploited his 37% to gridlock legislative processes, to cudgel or crush the political opposition, and ultimately to undermine the country’s democratic structures.
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Timothy Ryback,
TIME,
26 Apr. 2024
Before long, fairs had such attractions as cudgelling bouts, bearbaiting, and something called gouging.
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