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Recent Examples of quirt
Noun
The sedate throwing of flowers erupted into a fistfight, a ministampede and people lashed with whips and riding quirts.—John MacCormack, San Antonio Express-News, 26 Apr. 2018
There are 18 in all, with eight for each set of laces, and a further pair for the top strap eyelets; the toecap, tongue, rear, and foothole cover are all printed.
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Matt Gardner,
Forbes.com,
27 June 2025
In terms of construction, the adjustable straps didn't slide down, and the shapewear didn't roll or shift around underneath clothing.
Underneath her coat, Witherspoon wore an ankle-length black skirt and leather round-toe boots.
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Hannah Jackson,
Vogue,
28 Jan. 2025
Compare with the Met’s full-size cast, from 1985, and these miniatures cleave the collective anguish into distinct emotions — one figure seems mid-dance, one bored, another ecstatic — in a range of patinas, from dark chocolate to leather.
The Speccie’s star columnist is the rudest man in Christendom, the Godzilla of contumely, an all-time non-sufferer of fools who horsewhips his targets the way Hunter S. Thompson and Christopher Hitchens once did.
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Kyle Smith,
National Review,
23 Apr. 2020
In reality, Watson wasn’t a bar fighter or famous for horsewhipping cowboys.
The bullwhip effect and demand amplification are other manifestations of irrationality in supply chains.
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Shekar Natarajan,
Forbes.com,
27 June 2025
The limited supply, despite sustained demand, is likely to trigger a ripple effect of shortages and disruptions, a phenomenon known in supply chain dynamics as the reverse bullwhip effect.
In one particularly jarring example, under threat of being unplugged, Anthropic’s latest creation Claude 4 lashed back by blackmailing an engineer and threatened to reveal an extramarital affair.
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Thomas Urbain,
Fortune,
29 June 2025
The president also lashed out at economists who predicted his administration’s tariffs could cause a recession.
The meat tastes of hickory and applewood, with notes of citrus and pine from the hinoki.
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Jenn Harris,
Los Angeles Times,
2 June 2025
Puddles offer splash landing-pads to any child in flight;
display their dreams
through windows into the world above:
limbs and last leaves of sumac and hickory,
a passing black-capped chickadee,
and – down in the far blue –
a blouse of cloud.
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contributing Monitor poets,
Christian Science Monitor,
23 Apr. 2025
As with all Aalto furniture produced by Artek, the products use Finnish birch, and are made at Artek’s factory in Turku, Western Finland, the company said Tuesday.
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Sofia Celeste,
Footwear News,
10 June 2025
For warty birch caterpillars, that means patrolling one of the tiniest territories on Earth: the tips of birch leaves.
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