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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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  • The markets that day closed with losses after Trump attacked Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell — something markets majorly dislike.
    Alex Gangitano, The Hill, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Fundamentally there is a misunderstanding — or at least dislike — for what Guardiola is trying to achieve in these final games.
    Sam Lee, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2025
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  • She was criticized by some for her expensive timepiece and for using prisoners as production props.
    Michael Collins, USA Today, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Carey criticized laissez-faire economics for degrading the British working class.
    Made by History, Time, 28 Apr. 2025

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“Tsk-tsk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tsk-tsk. Accessed 3 May. 2025.

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