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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Maria Wittorp, the hotel’s head concierge, said, with the haste of an auctioneer, standing in the lobby, as blazer-wearing staffers whipped by.—
Jane Bua,
New Yorker,
14 May 2026 -
Real estate agents whipped out their phones to put a hard sell on anything east of I-95.—
Pat Beall,
Sun Sentinel,
8 May 2026
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Those numbers were slashed on May 1 due to work restrictions, leaving more than 100,000 people without reliable food access.—
Allison Kiehl,
Chicago Tribune,
16 May 2026
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Maryland officials slashed $126 million this spring from programs serving people with developmental disabilities, with much of the impact falling on families like Gonce’s.—
Mike Hixenbaugh,
NBC news,
15 May 2026
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Amanda initially pleaded not guilty to her falsifying documents and wire fraud charges, but switched to a guilty plea in October 2021.—
Jessica Sager,
PEOPLE,
12 May 2026
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De Cuyper returned to the starting line-up and Kadioglu switched to right-back to cater for Mats Wieffer being ruled out by an ankle injury.—
Andy Naylor,
New York Times,
12 May 2026
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On the rush, Keller controlled the loose puck just inside the left circle and flicked a shot off the back post into the net.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
2 May 2026
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Havertz turned and flicked it to Eze at the edge of the area, who curled home a spectacular finish.—
Mark Carey,
New York Times,
1 May 2026
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In previous years, the 31-year-old originally from Chicago might have lashed back when accosted on the ice.—
Jess Myers,
Twin Cities,
9 May 2026
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Lively has maintained this approach was in line with the press tactic laid out for her by Sony, but the internet quickly lashed out at her given the film’s serious subject matter.—
Jami Ganz,
New York Daily News,
9 May 2026
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Blond, blue-eyed and perpetually tanned, Harmon served as Groucho Marx’s assistant on the 1961 CBS game show Tell It to Groucho, then starred as a girl in Hawaii who gets mixed up in a robbery in the beach party movie One Way Wahine (1965).—
Mike Barnes,
HollywoodReporter,
15 Apr. 2026
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His skin is tanned, similar to a Lunarian king.—
Tyler Erzberger,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Mar. 2026
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Andy Pages hit a three-run home run and Max Muncy hit his 12th homer of the season on the next at-bat to break a scoreless game in the fourth inning.—
Liana Handler,
Los Angeles Times,
16 May 2026
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For cocktails and nightlife, hit TopGolf or Nola’s for live music then end the night strong with a table at HQ nightclub where resident and guest DJs keep the dance floor bumping and bottle servers keep the bubbly and energy flowing.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
16 May 2026
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The Tempo cut it to three midway through the fourth while Brittany Sykes (27 points, seven assists) sparked Toronto’s rally.—
Marisa Ingemi,
Los Angeles Times,
16 May 2026
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Kreutzer cuts clunkily and repeatedly between the ongoing crises in two households, presumably implying that the men in these women’s lives are all tarred with the same patriarchal brush.—
Stephanie Bunbury,
Deadline,
15 May 2026
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“Rawhided.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rawhided. Accessed 17 May. 2026.
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