scathe
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I suggest an ibid of historians, a ponder of scientists, a scathe of bureaucrats.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Judah had no doubt pledged himself to bring the lad back without scathe to his father, but he had done so without contemplating the possibility of Benjamin becoming amenable to Egyptian law.
From The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Genesis by Marcus Dods
But the Cid encountered him on the banks of the Huerta, and defeated him so completely that never again was he able to do him scathe.
From Legends & Romances of Spain by Lewis Spence
How the tall old pines, withered by the biting scathe of Eld, rise to the view, afar and near; white shafts, bottomed in darkness, and standing like the serried spears of an innumerable army!
From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, June 1844 Volume 23, Number 6 by Lewis Gaylord Clark
A broken bank, a dishonoured name, scathe and scorn to some—to him among the rest—who was, God knows, neither in deed nor in thought guilty of the sin which had brought ruin upon thousands.
From Allison Bain, or, By a Way she knew not by G. H. (George Henry) Edwards
Trilith Studios, one of the largest production facilities in North America, has been scathed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
"In the race to the bottom, France and Germany are leading the way in the September PMIs. Meanwhile, Spain and Italy are pulling through somewhat less scathed."
From Reuters ● Oct. 2, 2023
Exiting from the pandemic, the assumption might be that Noel’s students should be among the least scathed.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 9, 2023
"I guess you’d have to have an actress who was older, playing younger. I’m not quite sure what the rules are now. But I also wasn’t personally scathed by it."
From Fox News ● Nov. 22, 2021
And there were others its touch had scathed.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
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This scathing judgment only covers the years from 2009 to 2018, but no one thinks the actual or alleged fraud suddenly stopped after that.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
If you relish reading a critic pan a bad movie, then you’ll love Laura Miller’s scathing review of The Whisper Man, a ridiculous new thriller starring Robert De Niro and Michael Keaton.
From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2026
A scathing letter from two members of the family that controls Brown-Forman accuses the board of “rewarding failure.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
Emily Wilson, the academic whose 2017 translation of Homer's Odyssey was cited by the director as an influence on his adaptation of the poem, has written a scathing review of the movie.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
Surely I could come up with something smart and scathing, something that would let Rachel—and everyone else—know that she was my ex-friend for a reason.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
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