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- the mayor had hardly been in office for a month before she was being excoriated for problems of very long standing
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“Excoriate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/excoriate. Accessed 2 Jul. 2020.
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