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flagellate

[flaj-uh-leyt, flaj-uh-lit, -leyt] / ˈflædʒ əˌleɪt, ˈflædʒ ə lɪt, -ˌleɪt /


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But she also didn’t flagellate herself for the struggle.

From Washington Post Jan. 19, 2023

The flushing was ordered after three of 11 samples of the Lake Jackson’s water tested positive for the deadly flagellate.

From Seattle Times Oct. 6, 2020

But we don't need to flagellate ourselves with with guilt just because we happened to be born male identified.”

From Salon Dec. 13, 2018

The point of propelling moral progress is obviously not to accept the status quo, but it’s to identify problems and identify the solution to the problems, not to identify villains and flagellate the villains.

From Slate Feb. 20, 2018

They didn’t need to dwell on it over and over the way the coaches did and flagellate themselves with it.

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

"This feeding mode is unique, and demonstrates how pico-sized flagellates can feed on larger cells, which is often not considered in the modelling of microbial food webs."

From Salon Dec. 10, 2022

In order from the bottom, these are diplomonads, microsporidia, trichomonads, flagellates, entamoebae, slime molds, and ciliates.

From Textbooks Jan. 1, 2015

There are plenty of various weird critters, including small flagellates, some of which are rare — and some of which seem to have never been documented before!

From Scientific American Oct. 17, 2013

This time he flagellates himself for overestimating Rick Perry and underestimating Newt Gingrich.

From Slate Dec. 31, 2011

She was not a chatterer at any time, but after these moods she was almost sullen once more, and she fell upon her lessons with renewed zeal, as a monk flagellates his rebellious flesh.

From Rose of Dutcher's Coolly by Garland, Hamlin

The amoeboid cells of R. marina, characterized by their near immobility, can produce flagellated cells with two rearward-extending flagella through budding under conditions of prey scarcity.

From Science Daily Nov. 17, 2023

The real-life Lawrence had himself flagellated, reflecting a tortured soul more than a starchy independent.

From Washington Post Apr. 6, 2022

Studies of Volvox, an alga that forms beautiful, flagellated green balls, shows that multicellular organisms also found new ways to use existing functions.

From Science Magazine Jun. 28, 2018

Some think he flagellated himself too much and BBC top brass not enough.

From The Guardian Oct. 8, 2017

Her conscience flagellated her, and she had striven to develop her son's to the goodly proportion of her own.

From The Bell in the Fog and Other Stories by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn

During the Ashura processions, which are held across the world, many participants beat their backs with chains, flagellating themselves in a symbolic expression of regret for not being able to help Hussein before his martyrdom.

From Washington Times Aug. 19, 2021

The central composer was the twentieth-century Russian ascetic Galina Ustvolskaya, who wrote spiritual music of flagellating force.

From The New Yorker Jun. 25, 2018

They’re basically condemning all the other guys in their society, but simply confessing, flagellating, putting on hair shirts, making conspicuous sacrifices, that helps our social capital in our peer group.

From Slate Feb. 20, 2018

A crawling, oozing, flagellating suite of microbial life is central to the plant’s work.

From Seattle Times Mar. 12, 2017

The summit crackles with heat, there is no shelter, no hollow from the flagellating glare.

From Young Adventure, a Book of Poems by Benét, Stephen Vincent




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