thug
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“She saw the show early, and she was just totally taken. I think she said something like, ‘Alicia, you made this young thug cry,’” Keys recounted.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2026
But as long as Mr. Cabello remains the thug behind the throne, any such change would be cosmetic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 25, 2026
The former leader of the now-defunct English Defence League had wrongly claimed in an online video that a Syrian teenager was a violent thug.
From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2025
I didn’t think I was a thug or a nerd, but was constantly feeling like a man with no nation.
From Salon ● Dec. 10, 2024
One of them was Gerald Willis, the school thug.
From "Fourth Grade Rats" by Jerry Spinelli
Ms. Crabapple’s great-grandfather, Samuel Rothbort, was a Russian-born Bundist who, after tangling with local thugs, immigrated to the U.S. and became a painter and chicken farmer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
"They began organising traffic and clearing the markets, removing the street vendors who were blocking the roads. We felt protected from thugs and thieves."
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2025
The safety-conscious Monahan would not open her door to just anybody, especially not to hard-looking thugs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2025
Sometimes the best way to show leadership is to just say no, especially to bullies, thieves and thugs.
From Salon ● Feb. 24, 2025
I only remember where it said the people who had been working for Duvalier, the thieves and thugs and secret police, all those Macoutes, could not be in the government anymore.
From "Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti" by Frances Temple
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