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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

She said she’s careful about talking about her symptoms or posting online about them because “If you say one thing on social media that you got some kind of symptom they would crucify me.”

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 1, 2024

And to explain his reasoning, Biden used this phrase: “Never crucify yourself on a small cross.”

From Slate ● May 24, 2021

Nazaryan seemingly was trying to crucify the author rather than giving a solid review of the book.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 22, 2021

“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

Who is it crucifies her love of pretty clothes, her desire for good things, her longing for pleasure that we may have all these?

From Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

That is why the world always crucifies its Christs.

From A Dominie in Doubt by Alexander Sutherland Neill

Crucifī′er, one who crucifies; Cru′cifix, a figure or picture of Christ fixed to the cross; Crucifix′ion, death on the cross, esp. that of Christ.—adjs.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

Peter Moody's daughter Joanne Moody, 48, who is expected to join other families wronged by Bush in the court's public gallery, said: "It's broke me, it's crucified me. He has shown no remorse. No sympathy."

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

Even the thief crucified alongside him, in the final minutes of his life, with nothing to offer and everything to repent, received the same promise: today you will be with me in paradise.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

"It's the very beginning of Baroque painting, depicting a crucified Christ, isolated, luminous and standing out vividly against a dark and threatening sky," he said.

From Barron's ● Nov. 30, 2025

It’s probably a coincidence that O’Connor was 33 years old when he was cast in the role, the same age that Jesus Christ was crucified.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2025

But as an expert on getting crucified by lecture, I wonder what approach she’ll take.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

“It was the most crucifying pain,” Mr. Nadery recalled.

From New York Times ● Dec. 24, 2021

"The open-close strategy is crucifying businesses," he added.

From BBC ● Dec. 21, 2021

“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

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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