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flog

[flog, flawg] / flɒg, flɔg /


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I share this not to publicly flog myself for another travel faux pas but to give you hope or prompt you to broaden your search.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 18, 2026

You’re not out to fleece anyone with egregiously high commissions or merely befriend another member because you want to flog the latest financial product.

From MarketWatch May 29, 2026

“If you’re right here at the top of the curve, functioning at a high level, if I flog your nicotinic receptors, you’re actually going to have a decline in performance,” he adds.

From Slate Jun. 11, 2025

They are a Thing Unto Themselves, these ads, an art almost irrelevant to the products they flog — sometimes barely mentioned, often easy to forget.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 13, 2023

“Half the time you don’t even bother locking it. You’re probably hoping someone’ll flog it so you can collect the insurance.”

From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak

And it has a sense of humor, opening with a sidewalk preacher who flogs her Bible app.

From Los Angeles Times May 24, 2025

Hawley's character are as outsized as ever, and the mythical Fahr-goh accent still flogs the ear – but the overwrought, flowery speeches that drowned the 2020 season aren’t as overwhelming.

From Salon Nov. 21, 2023

A TV producer flogs an idea to pay for his gambling debts; a Mexican maid finds the money to pay for a private medical consultation; soldiers are bullied; an Elvis impersonator does a good turn.

From The Guardian Feb. 17, 2013

Avon flogs make-up and skin cream under its own brand.

From Economist Apr. 4, 2012

Indeed, his theory ran parallel to the famous Yankee motto—'England flogs creation, and Manchester flogs England.'

From Victorian Short Stories: Stories of Successful Marriages by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Wholesale costs in the U.S. jumped again in August, flogged by higher gasoline prices, in the first of two inflation reports that will dictate if the Federal Reserve raises interest rates next week.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 10, 2026

Mr. Mamdani’s team flogged a 2001 city memo that estimated the city could face 35,000 potential plaintiffs from “toxic tort cases that might arise in the next few decades.”

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 9, 2026

Tilak Varma flogged Archer for two sixes and a four in the final over, but it was not enough.

From BBC Jul. 4, 2026

Scores of bare-chested flagellants with covered faces walked barefoot through the dusty streets of Pampanga province's San Fernando as they flogged their backs with bamboo whips in scorching heat.

From Barron's Apr. 3, 2026

The Sicilian flogged his mind to find an answer, but he found only failure.

From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman

When he was first brought into the attack on day three, Head pounced immediately, flogging boundaries from each of the Durham seamer's first three balls.

From BBC Apr. 1, 2026

Voters seem content to let the young talent dangle, trusting that he’ll continue flogging himself to make more great pictures like this.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 23, 2025

But opportunities like last week’s flogging of the new Porsche 911 Turbo S on Circuito Ascari are rare and require considerable schlepping.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 6, 2025

After witnessing a sailor’s flogging, Cândido led a revolt against regular whipping by officers in 1910.

From Seattle Times Jan. 29, 2024

“See,” he said, “they come quickly; they are flogging the horses, and galloping as hard as they can.”

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker




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