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as in to butcher
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scrag
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Many were forced to butcher their camels to make ends meet, plunging the population to a low point of 200,000 in Mongolia.—
Matt Dutile,
Travel + Leisure,
21 June 2025 -
Butcher blocks provide a sturdy base for cutting and butchering meat.—
BestReviews,
Mercury News,
19 June 2025
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Providers are allowed to throttle your internet speed.—
Kara McGinley,
USA Today,
11 June 2025
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In addition to his interception, Gonzalez throttled some of the Patriots' receivers early in their routes during 11-on-11s and bottled up DeMario Douglas on a couple reps.—
Andrew Callahan,
Boston Herald,
10 June 2025
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This can seriously cut down the chances of data breaches, especially since the institution isn’t holding onto all that sensitive personal info in one place.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
26 June 2025
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The multi-coated glass cuts down on chromatic aberrations (distortion or color fringing sometimes seen around objects in bright sunlight).—
Scott Gilbertson,
Wired News,
25 June 2025
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And the state should do some of the work early by vetting the growing list of reading programs being offered to districts, so millions more dollars aren’t wasted on curricula and materials that don’t move reading scores.—
Denise Amos,
Mercury News,
18 June 2025
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There’s little question that some of the money Washington spent in recent years on foreign aid was wasted or devoted to pet ideological causes.—
Andrew Tisch,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2025
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Officers then spoke to the second victim, who said Bonds slammed them to the floor and choked them as well.—
Michelle L. Quinn,
Chicago Tribune,
23 June 2025
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Its options are widely considered to include retaliation against U.S. forces in the region as well as choking a major global oil supply route, the Strait of Hormuz.—
Mandy Taheri,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 June 2025
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Then Dart finished his second drive with a deep TD pass down the right sideline to rookie receiver Dalen Cambre.—
Pat Leonard,
New York Daily News,
17 June 2025
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But by 2025 when the project was finished, the cost had gone above the grant amount of $698,500.—
Myrna Petlicki,
Chicago Tribune,
17 June 2025
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That means the Senate's only practical effect is adding another point at which oligarch lobbyists can garrote popular policy.—
Ryan Cooper,
The Week,
29 Oct. 2021
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Tony, unhindered by any sense of moral anguish, garrotes the man in broad daylight with a length of cable.—
Adam Wilson,
Harper's magazine,
16 Sep. 2019
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Richard Veasey, The Future Lasts Forever: A Memoir The French political theorist Althusser famously murdered his wife and, deemed mentally unfit, avoided a trial and was assigned a guardian.—
Diana Arterian
June 20,
Literary Hub,
20 June 2025
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Gi-hun’s Kill Count Plenty of players are content to dispense with societal decorum and start fully murdering each other in the Games — but not Gi-hun.—
Proma Khosla,
IndieWire,
18 June 2025
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“Scrag.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scrag. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.
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