gibbet

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gibbet
Verb
  • That creates an uneventful race, like the one at Bristol earlier this spring, which had just four lead changes in 500 laps; afterward, fans pilloried the quality of the action on social media and satellite radio.
    Jeff Gluck, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Musk was pilloried by the woke crowd for making this an issue.
    Steve Forbes, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The announcement from Iervolino, who is embroiled in financial litigation having recently parted ways with business partner Monika Bakardi, comes as AI actress Tilly Norwood has sparked backlash from the acting community, prompting SAG-AFTRA to lash out.
    Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Imelda pulled away from the Bahamas Monday evening after lashing the islands with heavy rain, tropical storm-force winds and storm surge for two days.
    Briana Waxman, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • These include thinning fabric, stretching or sagging, holes, flaying, and heavy pilling.
    Gabi De la Rosa, Southern Living, 1 July 2025
  • Separating fact from invention is difficult, but there have been rumors that there was more than one murderer, the killing was drug-related and — perhaps most disturbingly — that Driscoll was either dismembered or flayed alive.
    Alex Heigl, People.com, 18 May 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
  • 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
  • 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
Verb
  • And other than a recession, which generally keelhauls buyback plans, don’t expect companies to ease off their repurchases.
    Larry Light, Fortune, 20 Aug. 2019
  • The threat posed by the AT&T-Time Warner merger is all the greater today because of the Trump administration’s initiative in keelhauling network neutrality at the Federal Communications Commission.
    Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com, 12 June 2018
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“Gibbet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gibbet. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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