as in whipped
to strike repeatedly with something long and thin or flexible
the desperados rawhided their horses in a futile attempt to outride the posse pursuing them
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Cherry already has a soft spot for Biancani, never mind the grueling conditioning, including countless hours of running that whipped the Hornets into shape.—
Joe Davidson,
Sacbee.com,
8 Nov. 2025 -
Ovechkin gathered the puck on his forehand, quickly turned it over to his backhand and whipped it into the net.—
Sean Gentille,
New York Times,
6 Nov. 2025
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Team engineers have been beavering away, clawing back downforce slashed in the new rule definitions for how cars need to look and behave.—
Alex Kalinauckas,
New York Times,
7 Jan. 2026
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Police said the 30-year-old victim was stabbed in the back and slashed in the neck.—
Jesse Zanger,
CBS News,
7 Jan. 2026
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Not only that, Jiang’s study found that the flow of money from active funds to passive funds had increased the overall value of the stock market, even though that money wasn’t new and had merely switched from one type of fund to another.—
Mark Dent,
HubSpot,
7 Nov. 2025
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Several county leaders who previously identified as moderate Republicans, including County Commissioner Shirley Allenbrand and Overland Park Mayor Curt Skoog have switched parties and won in local races.—
Taylor O'Connor,
Kansas City Star,
7 Nov. 2025
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Instead of slamming it home, Antetokounmpo soared over the defenders to make an improbable catch, landed and flicked an on-target pass to Rollins for a corner 3 before falling out of bounds to give Milwaukee a 14-point lead.—
Eric Nehm,
New York Times,
8 Nov. 2025
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After initially suspecting a bullet or debris flicked up by a truck, the police ruled out both.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Nov. 2025
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Picking sweet Julie mangoes from the big tree in the front yard of my childhood home; going to the beach where my late brother tried (and failed) to teach me to swim; visiting relatives during the summer in the very areas that were now being lashed by rain and wind.—
Grace White,
Essence,
29 Oct. 2025
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Vargas floated groups of migrants across the informal border crossing between Guatemala and Mexico on a makeshift raft made from wooden boards lashed to fat inner tubes.—
Daniel Gonzalez,
AZCentral.com,
29 Oct. 2025
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That hide is shipped overseas, usually to Asia, to be tanned into leather.—
Luke Fountain,
CNBC,
25 Dec. 2025
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He was also tanned, and hadn’t had a chance to fix a missing lower tooth.—
Ian Parker,
New Yorker,
22 Dec. 2025
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Iowa then got three good looks from the three-point line in the final seconds but couldn't hit the tying shot.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
7 Jan. 2026
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Despite their franchise history dating back to the mid-70s (via Kansas City and Colorado), which includes essentially all of the highest-scoring era in league history, the New Jersey Devils have never had a player hit either of the game’s most basic offensive milestones.—
Sean McIndoe,
New York Times,
7 Jan. 2026
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An emergency order by the FAA on Thursday said airlines have to cut traffic by 4%, resulting in about 800 flight cancellations for Friday that increased to over 1,000 throughout the day, according to FlightAware.—
Emma Tucker,
CNN Money,
8 Nov. 2025
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Southwest Airlines cut about 120 flights Friday.—
JOSH FUNK,
Arkansas Online,
8 Nov. 2025
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“Rawhided.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rawhided. Accessed 9 Jan. 2026.
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