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Recent Examples of tsk-tsk The first scene of Replicas has a robot tearing itself apart in horror upon having a dead man’s consciousness uploaded into it; the second scene has Alice Eve, playing Reeves’s husband, casually tsk-tsking her husband in the kitchen for trying to bring all those people back to life. James Grebey, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2025 Instead of playing music while the gymnasts performed, Bercy Arena turned into a church, complete with would-be church ladies tsk-tsking people who dared to react when the gymnasts nailed a skill on beam. Dana O'Neil, The Athletic, 5 Aug. 2024
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  • Many fans have grown to dislike the Dodgers for spending their way into contention.
    Aaliyan Mohammed, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Nobody dislikes uncertainty more than the markets dislike uncertainty.
    Max Zahn, ABC News, 30 Sep. 2025
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  • Some council members have criticized the proposal, citing a lack of communication and calling the move premature.
    Vanessa Swales, jsonline.com, 6 Oct. 2025
  • So far, the league’s response has been not to fix the issue but, instead, to levy fines against players and coaches who criticize refs.
    Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2025

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“Tsk-tsk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tsk-tsk. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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