lash
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Characters forced to make do either lash out, like raging overreactors on Lee Sung Jin’s petty, brutal “Beef,” or fall into holding patterns, like the unlucky in love leads of Issa Rae’s dramedy “Insecure.”
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026
It’s the latest effect forecast for what’s expected to be an historically strong event, one forecasters warn could also lash Southern California with powerful rain and broil both land and sea with punishing heat waves.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
The crews use mooring ropes to lash the ships as close as 11 feet from each other so that they roll in the waves together.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
But it was PSG who obeyed the message, delivering a third-minute hammer blow when Georgian genius Khvicha Kvaratskhelia raced down the wing before setting up Ousmane Dembele to lash a finish high past Manuel Neuer.
From BBC ● May 6, 2026
Now, she thought, now, and for an instant she glimpsed Khal Drogo before her, mounted on his smoky stallion, a flaming lash in his hand.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
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Entire communities have been swept away, leaving families homeless and using makeshift shelters as heavy rain lashes down.
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
Even so, Patel stands out for how he appears to crave online adulation and lashes out at any perceived criticism.
From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2026
The solid, stolid, self-satisfied Edwardian England that had seemed so deserving of his lashes was itself now wounded, and something in Galsworthy shifted accordingly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
Jack Osbourne, the youngest child of Ozzy Osbourne, lashes back at Roger Waters’ bashing of the “Prince of Darkness” and his music.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2026
The wind whips Celia’s dark curls in wet ropes across her face as she considers him, watching his eyes as the raindrops evaporate from his lashes.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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