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“If it had been six months earlier, they would have given us a slap on the hand,” he said.

From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2026

After a prolonged legal battle between Elon Musk and U.S. regulators over his past purchase of Twitter shares, the technology CEO is getting off with little more than a slap on the wrist.

From MarketWatch ● May 4, 2026

The first is that nobody should call our food system “broken,” the all-purpose label that armchair revolutionaries slap on any aspect of the messy human condition that doesn’t measure up.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

"In the end he got a slap on the wrist," she said.

From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2026

So I slap on that smile and pretend everything’s okay even though it’s not.

From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray




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