corporal

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With his older brother John, he ran a school, having left a previous teaching post from a disinclination to administer corporal punishment.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026

Brydson, an ex-army corporal from Renfrew, was housemaster at Monken Hadley.

From BBC • Jan. 29, 2026

Blevins, the wife of the Camp Lejeune Marine corporal, had been getting food from pantries periodically over the past few years to offset rising grocery costs.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 8, 2025

Bayer is terrific as Madame Jen, the cause of this film’s corporal confusion, a flam-flam artist who side-hustles as a barista.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 7, 2025

The period between the late eighteenth and the mid-nineteenth centuries, wrote Michel Foucault, saw “the disappearance of torture as a public spectacle” and the gradual phasing out of corporal punishments.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover