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flogging

noun as in lashing

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Remarkably, he took only eight runs from his first eight balls before flogging Singh Dale over the leg side for his first three boundaries.

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The United Nations has said the rules amount to "gender apartheid", while also reporting public floggings and brutal attacks on former government officials.

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But it’s also part of Netflix’s “rise and fall” true crime genre, cautioning against believing in figures like Johnson, who hooks young men by flogging a version of caveman masculinity that associates virility with dominance.

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He began by timing the ball to all corners of Lahore before flogging England's bowlers whenever they dropped too short.

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Eastman has advocated a reconsideration of birthright citizenship — or as I wrote in 2020, “flogging this dead horse” — for years.

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