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crucify

[kroo-suh-fahy] / ˈkru səˌfaɪ /




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Widower Reg Harris, 85, said giving up driving would "absolutely crucify" his lifestyle.

From BBC Jul. 31, 2025

“I thought they were gonna crucify me!” said Massry.

From Slate Oct. 26, 2024

She added that she felt like “everybody’s trying to crucify me” for her relationship with Combs and that she needed to “take a break and focus on what’s important” when the allegations came down.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 9, 2024

“We’re behind him 100 percent. Y’all be trying to crucify him and that ain’t right,” Leary said.

From Seattle Times Sep. 18, 2019

“Finnegan’s here. He’ll crucify me if it looks like I’m not working.”

From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia

I was born for the purpose that crucifies your mind,

From New York Times Apr. 28, 2023

James Glickson New York City It is sacrificial slaughter when society crucifies its best leaders on a cross of impossibly high standards.

From Time Magazine Archive

The play dealt with woman—with the new woman who has grown so old in the last twenty years—with the woman whose past is a cross upon which she crucifies both herself and the public.

From Virginia by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

The multitude which crowns to-day and crucifies to-morrow establishes no standard.

From Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians by Elizabeth Miller

"Whosoever receiveth you receiveth Me," and it follows that whosoever crucifies you crucifies Me.

From The Great Discovery by Norman Maclean

Israeli security forces imposed restrictions on access to the Holy Sepulchre in annexed east Jerusalem, where Christians believe Jesus Christ was crucified, buried and rose from the dead.

From Barron's Apr. 5, 2026

The crucified Christ has been taken down from the cross, but there is no cross, no ladder—only a single cloud and a tiny sliver of earth to ground the composition.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 27, 2026

“Madame Web” underperformed in the theaters because the press just crucified it.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 26, 2024

It marks the discovery of the cross Jesus was crucified on, according to Ethiopian Orthodox Christian tradition.

From BBC Sep. 27, 2024

“See, she was singing her favorite hymn, ‘Were you there when they crucified my Lord?’

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd

“The open/close strategy is crucifying businesses,” Michael Kill, chief executive of the Night Time Industries Association.

From Washington Times Dec. 21, 2021

“Instead of out-casting and almost crucifying a personality, you say: ‘Okay, this guy is different, let’s act a certain way, let’s not treat him like a Roger Federer or like a Marin Cilic.

From Washington Post Aug. 2, 2021

"To young people just starting a career, it's crucifying."

From BBC Jun. 28, 2021

“We didn’t have some preconceived idea about crucifying Michelle,” said John Stauffer, one of the two American studies professors.

From New York Times Sep. 13, 2017

The letter to the editor crucifying her husband had hurt her terribly.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger




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