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crucify

[kroo-suh-fahy] / ˈkru səˌfaɪ /




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

From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2024

"We have had parents say they want their child to go to pre-school but it would crucify them financially," she added.

From BBC ● May 10, 2023

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 22, 2021

“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

All the benefits to society come from the few, and society crucifies them to show its gratitude.

From A Grammar of Freethought by Chapman Cohen

The leader who preaches things out of comprehension arouses the kind of opposition which finally crucifies him.

From The Foundations of Personality by Abraham Myerson

That is why the world always crucifies its Christs.

From A Dominie in Doubt by Alexander Sutherland Neill

With this time-shaping device called the Chronovisor, Father Pellegrino Ernetti professed to have seen footage of the crucified Christ and even enjoyed a lost play staged by an ancient Roman dramatist.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 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

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

Dafoe was crucified as Jesus in The Last Temptation of Christ and cut off his ear as Van Gogh in At Eternity's Gate.

From BBC ● Dec. 31, 2024

He showed us tha’t’ live in this worl’ wuz t’ be crucified by it.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright

Drake's music sounds more in line with the current culture so persistent in crucifying women for their mere existence or agency.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2023

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

From BBC ● 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

“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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