quartered

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Expressing affection for a specific film in a public forum is grounds to be drawn and quartered in the social media town square.

From Salon • Mar. 11, 2026

Following World War I, fantastic “art” was largely identified with Surrealism, while popular fantasy was mostly quartered within the new mass-market ghettos of pulps, comics, film marketing and paperback books.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

Instead of Bath, Manueli turned out for Harlequins - a team who play in the famous quartered shirt but in south east Melbourne, rather than south west London.

From BBC • Jul. 25, 2025

Looking back on White’s original 500-word essay, trying to pinpoint the source of the internet’s ire, you might think you missed a line in which she insisted that all musicians be drawn and quartered.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 1, 2024

Like sailors quartered on a battleship, they found privacy, space, and quiet hard to come by.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French