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as in to whip
to defeat by a large margin
with the economy having gone south, it was hardly surprising that the incumbent party got pasted in the general election
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2
as in to slap
to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner
pasted the soccer ball halfway across the field
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as in epoxy
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Recent Examples of paste
Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
What was meant to be a reflective, thought-provoking discussion on slavery and human resilience was flattened into copy-paste commentary.
—Ashanty Rosario, The Atlantic, 3 Sep. 2025
Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 12 Aug. 2025
But permits for other brownstone renovations are pasted up and down the block.
—Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 30 July 2025
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Verb
Copy, paste and edit the square brackets in ChatGPT, and keep the same chat window open so the context carries through.
—Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
What was meant to be a reflective, thought-provoking discussion on slavery and human resilience was flattened into copy-paste commentary.
—Ashanty Rosario, The Atlantic, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
If a site asks you to paste a command into your terminal or browser console, stop.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 12 Aug. 2025
But permits for other brownstone renovations are pasted up and down the block.
—Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 30 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for paste
Verb
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His best friend’s little sister sets out to whip him back into shape.—
Tessa Bailey,
PEOPLE,
7 Sep. 2025
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Boaters were the last to be warned to watch the sky as a line of wind-whipping storms pushed out to sea.—
Joe Dwinell,
Boston Herald,
7 Sep. 2025
Verb
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DraftKings, one of the biggest online sports gambling sites in Illinois, is slapping 50- or 25-cent fees on most bets.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Sep. 2025
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During the stream, Kardashian tagged along for Cenat's noodle game — basically, a challenge where the influencer and his friends take turns hitting each other on the head with pool noodles while participants wear helmets and don't know which of their peers slapped them from behind.—
Brenton Blanchet,
People.com,
2 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Given that a Claymore is a curved block of C4 explosive with a layer of epoxy on the front embedded with about 700 ball bearings, the mine is a small, highly lethal munition.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
24 Aug. 2025
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The pieces were coated in crystal-clear epoxy and a layer of cannabis resin and framed in an acrylic shadow box.—
Benjamin Adams,
Forbes.com,
22 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The only way that the uranium-lead ratio can be compatible with the hafnium in the zircons, Whitehouse argued, is if the zircons that settled in the silt had crystallized around 2.8 billion years ago, constraining the organic carbon to being no older than that.—
Howard Lee,
ArsTechnica,
11 Aug. 2025
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The gold standard and easiest way to date very old rock formations is with a very tough mineral known as a zircon.—
Katie Hunt,
CNN Money,
27 June 2025
Verb
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My buddies hang skinned, whole deer in a walk-in cooler for up to two weeks before butchering.—
Natalie Krebs,
Outdoor Life,
28 Aug. 2025
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This indicates the victims were skinned, the flesh removed, the bodies disarticulated, and then cooked and eaten.—
Jennifer Ouellette,
ArsTechnica,
21 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Like the clang of bells, the sound bypassed my ears and punched the air from my lungs.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Sep. 2025
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His video shows the worker being punched and stomped on as others attempted to intervene.—
Mike Stunson,
Kansas City Star,
3 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The digestive process strips the mucilage from the beans and induces fermentation.—
Joseph V Micallef,
Forbes,
31 Dec. 2024
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The mucilage in bladderwrack—a gel-like substance—can benefit individuals with gastritis or indigestion by coating irritated mucous membranes along the digestive tract.—
Boutayna Chokrane,
WIRED,
6 Dec. 2024
Noun
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At a distance, the staunch political history of carnival can be easy to overlook on Instagram feeds full of beautiful Black people clad in feathers and rhinestones or neon paint and charcoal.—
Mankaprr Conteh,
Rolling Stone,
23 Aug. 2025
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The pop star also wore a push-up bra top made of glittering rhinestones — while giving the camera a sultry look from inside a tub of water, face full of makeup — for the album's main cover.—
Starr Bowenbank,
People.com,
20 Aug. 2025
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“Paste.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/paste. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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