as in beatings
failure to win a contest
suffered a whipping that took them out of competition
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On many nights, Tamara would find her grandmother hunched over the kitchen table, poring over trial transcripts in which Erik and Lyle delivered hours of tearful and stomach-churning accounts of beatings, verbal lashings and rape.—
Elizabeth Wolfe,
CNN Money,
12 Oct. 2025 -
The film stars Vahid Mubasseri as a mechanic with painful kidney injuries from prison beatings who first follows the distinctive thumping sound of a prosthetic leg that’s etched on his brain and sets the plot in motion.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
6 Oct. 2025
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And the matchup gives the Rebels their chance to inflict back-to-back defeats upon the Bulldogs for the first time in almost 30 years.—
Ben Verbrugge,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Oct. 2025
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But their four defeats have come against Tottenham, Manchester United, Liverpool and Manchester City — and in two of those cases, the winning goal came in stoppage time.—
Oliver Kay,
New York Times,
17 Oct. 2025
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The Sabres started 0-3, with two of those losses coming at home.—
Matthew Fairburn,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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Many of those drivers could have stemmed or erased their losses simply by waiting for another year or two and paying off some or all of the remaining loan balance, Drury said.—
Daniel de Visé,
USA Today,
15 Oct. 2025
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In the months since, Hamas suffered several setbacks including Israel's 12-day war in Iran in June, which helped to deplete the militant group's supply of ammunition.—
Joey Garrison,
USA Today,
14 Oct. 2025
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But the fintech company has also been dealing with some setbacks too.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
13 Oct. 2025
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“Whippings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/whippings. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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