yanked

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Yanked by coach Rick Carlisle midway through the third quarter of loss at Charlotte, Indiana’s starters opened with 23 points in the first quarter for a 32-19 lead against the Pelicans.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 20, 2021

Yanked in the fifth, Kershaw trudged off with a dubious distinction - he has allowed a postseason-record eight home runs this year.

From Washington Times • Oct. 30, 2017

Yanked out of retirement by an army desperate for leadership, he commanded 27,000 Israelis in a daring drive across Egypt’s Suez Canal that helped turn the tide of the war.

From Salon • Jan. 12, 2014

Yanked up in voltage and turned garishly hip, Warhol's iconic images of Jackie after J.F.K.'s murder, and his tabloid pictures of cars crashed and suicides, replaced dignity with glitz, marrying starstruck glamour to grisly death.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Yanked you?" said the Old Gentleman from Saturn, gazing contemptuously at the Hippopotamus.

From Andiron Tales by Dwiggins, Clare Victor