crucify

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Verb
  • Some council members have criticized the proposal, citing a lack of communication and calling the move premature.
    Vanessa Swales, jsonline.com, 6 Oct. 2025
  • So far, the league’s response has been not to fix the issue but, instead, to levy fines against players and coaches who criticize refs.
    Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Over the past week, some have posted clips of Hammoud berating Barham that have drawn millions of views.
    Niraj Warikoo, Freep.com, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Being berated by your boss for your incompetence and having a bunch of strangers laugh at you is true nightmare fuel.
    Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Some of their struggles can be blamed on a tough slate of defenses.
    Michael Salfino, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Real leadership requires a basic understanding of facts and a desire to do more than just blame others.
    Jade Jackson, IndyStar, 5 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Miss Sammie flashed the scolding look Jean had known since childhood, though playfully now.
    David Wright Faladé, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Chun also scolded attorneys for Amazon in July for withholding thousands of documents from the FTC and abusing a legal privilege to shield them from scrutiny.
    Annie Palmer, CNBC, 23 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The Lynx lost that game, and then, with Collier in a boot on the bench and her coach suspended for excoriating the referees in her defense, came up short in the decisive Game Four, too.
    Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2025
  • There’s no question Newsom — who had spent months excoriating refiners for gouging consumers on gasoline prices, even calling a special legislative session to impose new regulations — changed his tune after two refineries announced plans to shut down.
    Dan Walters, Mercury News, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Schumer is the latest Democrat on Capitol Hill to upbraid Kennedy in recent days over the measles outbreak.
    Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA Today, 13 July 2025
  • The stupidity of his denigration of the COVID vaccines — there’s that word again — brought him a joint upbraiding by the Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2023.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2024
Verb
  • Koch was a real-life Nazi war criminal, played here by Krieps, whose sick specialties include flaying the skin off of Jewish people and making objects out of it like lampshades.
    William Earl, Variety, 4 Oct. 2025
  • These include thinning fabric, stretching or sagging, holes, flaying, and heavy pilling.
    Gabi De la Rosa, Southern Living, 1 July 2025
Verb
  • As the government shutdown began, polls showed voters were divided on who to blame, with many faulting both parties.
    Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 2 Oct. 2025
  • As the winds intensified, power lines across the city started to fault.
    Chiara Eisner, NPR, 2 Oct. 2025
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“Crucify.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crucify. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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