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Recent Examples of crucify
Like, my parents took off work to watch their son get crucified by 12 white children.
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Vulture Editors, Vulture, 6 Sep. 2024
Some connect bad luck to biblical tradition, where Christ was believed to be crucified on a Friday, and Judas (the 13th person at the Last Supper) is believed to have betrayed Jesus.
—Alex Perry, The Enquirer, 13 Sep. 2024
Richardson's situation is just one of many examples where athletes (especially Black women who are also overly scrutinized) are held to a higher standard than the average individual and crucified for anything that may seem to jeopardize their chance at winning.
—Giana Levy, refinery29.com, 22 June 2024
He was arrested that evening, and crucified the next day, on a Friday.
—Gabe Hauari, The Courier-Journal, 13 Sep. 2024
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Vulture Editors, Vulture, 6 Sep. 2024
Some connect bad luck to biblical tradition, where Christ was believed to be crucified on a Friday, and Judas (the 13th person at the Last Supper) is believed to have betrayed Jesus.
—Alex Perry, The Enquirer, 13 Sep. 2024
Richardson's situation is just one of many examples where athletes (especially Black women who are also overly scrutinized) are held to a higher standard than the average individual and crucified for anything that may seem to jeopardize their chance at winning.
—Giana Levy, refinery29.com, 22 June 2024
He was arrested that evening, and crucified the next day, on a Friday.
—Gabe Hauari, The Courier-Journal, 13 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for crucify
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Mangione was found with a three-page handwritten manifesto criticizing the U.S. healthcare system.Amanda Castro, Newsweek, 12 Dec. 2024
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Some civil rights advocates sharply criticized Trump’s choice.Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2024
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According to the complaint, Acosta was working for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power when Mathis berated him for blocking his driveway with a city dump truck and threatened him with a gun.Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
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Robinson soon found himself at NXT as a hippie character who eventually turned on the audience, berating them over environmental issues.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 30 Nov. 2024
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President-elect Donald Trump called for nonintervention in Syria, blaming the escalating situation on former President Barack Obama.Brady Knox, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 7 Dec. 2024
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TikTok has denied the allegations against it or blamed actions on individual bad actors within the company.Alison Durkee, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
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The Senate hauled Live Nation’s president and CFO in for a public scolding.Allison Morrow, CNN, 10 Dec. 2024
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The New York Times reported that Hegseth’s mother had sent him an email scolding him for abusing women.Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2024
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The colorful, outspoken, free-market economist and television personality excoriated the political establishment, while vowing to take a chainsaw to a bloated government, obscene levels of spending and high taxes and to replace the near-worthless peso with the U.S. dollar.Steve Forbes, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
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Others blamed Russian influence efforts supporting Trump or FBI Director James Comey’s statement excoriating Clinton’s handling of classified information in her emails while serving as secretary of state.Chris Megerian, Chicago Tribune, 6 Nov. 2024
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That starts with upbraiding Chapman’s would-be assassin, who’s still nursing injuries from being run over by a taxicab — this after handling three other agents quite capably.Scott Tobias, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2024
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The stupidity of his denigration of the COVID vaccines — there’s that word again — brought him a joint upbraiding by the Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2023.Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2024
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The massive main compartment flays open completely near the back panel for easy packing and unpacking, with several other zippered access points for stuffing or pulling layers out on-the-go.The Editors, Outside Online, 18 Nov. 2024
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However, for somebody whose arm has been flayed and who spent all night looking at the Hannibal art installation that was once his wife, Donald is acting way too normal.James Grebey, Vulture, 17 Oct. 2024
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Either way, any outlook on higher education next year cannot be faulted for caution or even pessimism, though it’s likely driven far more by uncertainty than the status of the marketplace itself.Derek Newton, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
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Derik Queen isn’t bothered by freshman jitters Hardly anyone would have faulted the precocious youngster from Baltimore for feeling a little heat in his first true road game of the season in a hostile environment like the one created by the crowd at Mackey Arena.Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 8 Dec. 2024
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“Crucify.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crucify. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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