pastings

plural of pasting

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beatings
Noun
  • In July, after months of detention, which included routine beatings and other mistreatment, the men were released to Venezuela in a prisoner exchange.
    Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2025
  • On many nights, Tamara would find her grandmother hunched over the kitchen table, poring over trial transcripts in which Erik and Lyle delivered hours of tearful and stomach-churning accounts of beatings, verbal lashings and rape.
    Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Money, 12 Oct. 2025
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“Pastings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pastings. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.

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