as in to wax
to defeat by a large margin
the local football team was shellacked 35-0 in their final outing for the season
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Recent Examples of shellac
The floor tiles are actual pennies, which were installed and shellacked by the owner.
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Kathryn O'Shea-Evans, Architectural Digest, 11 Mar. 2025
Technical analysts who watch price charts worry that after Monday’s shellacking the S & P 500 could soon test its 200-day moving average, saying the latest action confirmed how fragile the market setup is at the start of a new month.
—Sarah Min, CNBC, 3 Mar. 2025
Snapshots of local families are shellacked right onto the tables.
—Connie Ogle, Miami Herald, 28 Feb. 2025
Unlike some hairsprays that shellac your hair into place and risk flaking, this one keeps things soft, touchable, and free of helmet hair.
—Christa Joanna Lee, Allure, 17 Feb. 2025
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Kathryn O'Shea-Evans, Architectural Digest, 11 Mar. 2025
Technical analysts who watch price charts worry that after Monday’s shellacking the S & P 500 could soon test its 200-day moving average, saying the latest action confirmed how fragile the market setup is at the start of a new month.
—Sarah Min, CNBC, 3 Mar. 2025
Snapshots of local families are shellacked right onto the tables.
—Connie Ogle, Miami Herald, 28 Feb. 2025
Unlike some hairsprays that shellac your hair into place and risk flaking, this one keeps things soft, touchable, and free of helmet hair.
—Christa Joanna Lee, Allure, 17 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shellac
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The 10-minute Blue Origin publicity flight delivered its promised social media moments: Perry kissed the ground while King waxed philosophical about Earth’s beauty.—
Jackie Snow,
Quartz,
19 Apr. 2025
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Which is why during a chat with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe this week, the singer-songwriter waxed rhapsodic about accidentally being pulled into Swift’s pandemic orbit in the best way possible.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
16 Apr. 2025
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While most creams simply hydrate, this one goes above and beyond, helping rebuild what your skin loses over time, improving texture, boosting tolerance to actives like tretinoin, and visibly reducing signs of aging.—
Christa Joanna Lee,
Allure,
27 Mar. 2025
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Medications for neuropathic pain include: Amitriptyline Duloxetine Pregabalin and gabapentin Capsaicin creams and patches are also used.—
Sarah Jividen,
Verywell Health,
22 Apr. 2025
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This feud would come to an end on an episode of Monday Night Raw in August 2023 when Owens power bombed Ezekiel onto the ring apron, causing him to be stretchered backstage.—
Jeremy Hanna,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 May 2025
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On April 2, Israel bombed several Syrian military sites, including the Tiyas air base, known as T4, to prevent Ankara from establishing air defenses there.—
David Makovsky,
Foreign Affairs,
6 May 2025
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Even before the latest crackdown, Florida Decides Healthcare and every other Florida initiative campaign had to overcome immense hurdles.—
Steve Bousquet,
Sun Sentinel,
3 May 2025
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At the same time, the Clippers have to overcome being … well … the Clippers.—
Zach Harper,
New York Times,
2 May 2025
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After the animal snapped and whipped its tail, Dragich wrangled the gator onto the shoulder of the highway.—
Charna Flam,
People.com,
1 May 2025
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Instead, as Gauff belied her recent struggles on her forehand side by whipping the ball up and down into the court and out of her opponent’s easy reach time and again, Świątek looked adrift.—
Matthew Futterman,
New York Times,
1 May 2025
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Repurposing content is smart, but copying and pasting the same content everywhere is not.—
Natalie Nathanson,
Forbes.com,
9 Apr. 2025
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Feel free to copy and paste it to your pre-baby-meeting group chats, or use it as a jumping off point for your own personal message.—
Beth Ann Mayer,
Parents,
9 Apr. 2025
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Prominent government leaders like John F. Kennedy and Thurgood Marshall, as well as famous women including Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Grace Hopper, are buried here, too.—
Kait Hanson,
Southern Living,
3 May 2025
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Here in Paris, he is technically buried on American soil: earth from the Battle of Bunker Hill.—
Patt Morrison,
Los Angeles Times,
3 May 2025
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The formula is a gel-cream that hydrates skin with such ingredients as collagen-boosting copper peptides, smoothing saccharide isomerate, moisture-retaining sodium PCA, and calming zinc oxide.—
Danielle Sinay,
Glamour,
8 May 2025
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Eyes dart, brows furrow, and Holliday lets slip a slight grin, before skinning that smoke wagon and firing one shot into Ringo’s forehead.—
Joseph Hudak,
Rolling Stone,
2 Apr. 2025
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“Shellac.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shellac. Accessed 20 May. 2025.
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