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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lash (out)
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Trump amps up his attacks on CEOs and other executives Trump has long used social media and his other public statements to cajole, criticize and praise companies and individual CEOs.—
Maria Aspan,
NPR,
14 Aug. 2025 -
Some social media users have criticized the department’s reverence for the 1940s, noting the period predated the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which outlawed segregation, as well as other landmark legislation and Supreme Court decisions that were key to the civil rights era.—
Conor Murray,
Forbes.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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As for fighting the Trump pressure campaign, even politicians as ambitious as Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker are mostly left to file lawsuits — and fulminate.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
5 May 2025
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At the time, even Carter's fellow Democrats fulminated against his incompetence.—
George Monastiriakos,
Newsweek,
31 Dec. 2024
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The secret there is that people love stories about themselves, that the Apple TV+ brand of feel-good comedy is ascendant, and that The Studio’s satire is never very biting, allowing everyone to feel lightly chided but mostly in the club.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
15 July 2025
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The Trump administration had hoped that statement would be the final word on the saga, with Trump chiding a reporter who asked Bondi about the Epstein case at a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday.—
Eric Tucker,
Los Angeles Times,
12 July 2025
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In 2022, Manhattan Federal Judge Jed Rakoff, who presided over both trials, decided The Times was not liable for defamation while jurors were deliberating, that the error amounted to unfortunate editorializing but not libel.—
Molly Crane-Newman,
New York Daily News,
22 Apr. 2025
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As a new, inexpensive Chevrolet appeared in 1927 and The Dearborn Independent was sued for libeling a number of Jewish businessmen, Ford threw in the towel and apologized.—
George Pendle,
airmail.news,
15 Mar. 2025
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Still, some candidates and critics chastised Mamdani for his overseas absence after New York City’s deadliest shooting in decades.—
Leonard Greene,
New York Daily News,
3 Aug. 2025
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And in the same hearing, several senators chastised lottery Executive Director Ryan Mindell for earlier telling lawmakers that his agency was powerless under current state law to regulate, much less prohibit, the couriers that are presently active in 18 other states from doing business in Texas.—
John C. Moritz,
Austin American Statesman,
30 July 2025
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Despite Donald Trump‘s attempt to slander Gayle King, the CBS Mornings co-host is remaining gracious in her response.—
Mya Abraham,
VIBE.com,
6 Aug. 2025
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In addition to being sabotaged on the job, Hughes has also been sued and slandered by groups of horse advocates, and a few individuals in particular.—
Dac Collins,
Outdoor Life,
31 July 2025
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An inflation report earlier this week came in lower than economists expected, however, rebuking policymakers' worst fears.—
Max Zahn,
ABC News,
13 Aug. 2025
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Kennedy, a longtime vaccine skeptic who has denounced the Covid-19 vaccines, has been rebuked in recent days by former CDC employees who have been laid off in mass government staffing cuts in recent months.—
Matt Lavietes,
NBC news,
12 Aug. 2025
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If the committee finds the charges to be malicious, the accusers may also be reprimanded, suspended, removed from office or expelled.—
Liam Rappleye,
Freep.com,
6 Aug. 2025
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In October, Redstone publicly criticized McMahon's decision to reprimand CBS News morning anchor Tony Dokoupil over an interview with author Ta-Nehisi Coates.—
Alex Sherman,
CNBC,
19 May 2025
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“Lash (out).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lash%20%28out%29. Accessed 24 Aug. 2025.
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