as in to descend (on or upon)
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There was lace everywhere and leather too.—
Precious Fondren,
Los Angeles Times,
20 June 2026 -
From Ikebana studios in Kyoto to leather workshops in Florence and tartan looms in Stirling, a growing number of trips now build entire itineraries around a single craft.—
Hanna Wickes,
Charlotte Observer,
29 May 2026
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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.—
USA Today,
USA Today,
5 June 2025
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Both failed to fire, and the hero of the Battle of New Orleans, with a hair-trigger temper, began caning the would-be assassin.—
Barbara A. Perry,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Apr. 2025
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Under the method, executioners strap an inmate to a gurney with chest and shoulder harnesses and attach a mask to his face.—
Maureen Groppe,
USA Today,
11 June 2026
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In the upcoming fifth and sixth seasons of Rubble & Crew, fans will strap on safety gear and get ready for demolition, as Builder Cove’s construction heroes become the Wrecking Crew, moving from construction to destruction.—
Denise Petski,
Deadline,
14 May 2026
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An expensive dollar also scourges industries that compete with imports.—
Edward Lotterman,
Twin Cities,
31 May 2026
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McCarter also has several outstanding requests related to the open-air drug market and homelessness scourge at and around Mass and Cass, of which he’s been particularly outspoken about in recent months as a resident of a hot-spot spillover area in the South End, according to his lawsuit.—
Gayla Cawley,
Boston Herald,
12 Nov. 2025
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Wrapping up the selection are the Slovak coming-of-age drama Cowgirl by Michal Blaško (Victim) and Austrian director Sebastian Brauneis’ boxing biography Hansi about Hans Orsolics, which captures 1960s Vienna.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
16 June 2026
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Before finding acting in his late 20s, Moore worked in law firms and boxed professionally for 12 years.—
Nigel Smith,
PEOPLE,
16 June 2026
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Yet interpreting those rules can be almost as challenging as trying to whack the ball toward the flagstick.—
Jared Perlo,
NBC news,
21 June 2026
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Hastings whacked a triple down the right-field line to bring in two runs and give the Diamonds a 3-2 lead.—
Latif Love
June 18,
Kansas City Star,
18 June 2026
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There's one man smack in the middle of it all.—
Zachary Schermele,
USA Today,
18 June 2026
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For the viewer, the satisfaction comes through vicarious tactile sensation—witnessing how the thatch gets smacked in by a flat, hammerlike device, or the way a tile slots perfectly into a shelf niche.—
Kyle Chayka,
New Yorker,
17 June 2026
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Some go further, flagellating themselves or using a sword to strike their forehead to draw blood.—
Nabih Bulos,
Los Angeles Times,
22 June 2026
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In the mid-eighties, Habermas went after conservative historians who felt that Germans should no longer flagellate themselves over the Nazi past.—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
15 June 2026
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“Fustigate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fustigate. Accessed 23 Jun. 2026.
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