as in to lick
to strike repeatedly
the mob boss's thugs really worked him over
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Recent Examples of work over
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the governing body overseeing the OG of award shows, has worked over the past decade to restructure the membership of film professionals who vote on the Oscars each year.
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Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2025
Dozens of artists have covered or sampled your work over the years.
—Sophie Williams, Billboard, 29 Jan. 2025
What our reviewers say: Glamour senior commerce editor Jenifer Calle approached testing with trepidation but was pleasantly surprised by how well this product worked over the course of a month.
—Sarah Y. Wu, Glamour, 16 Jan. 2025
Adding up weekly hours on the job and breaks between jobs reveals a 14% difference in time worked over a decade.
—Kweilin Ellingrud, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2025
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Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2025
Dozens of artists have covered or sampled your work over the years.
—Sophie Williams, Billboard, 29 Jan. 2025
What our reviewers say: Glamour senior commerce editor Jenifer Calle approached testing with trepidation but was pleasantly surprised by how well this product worked over the course of a month.
—Sarah Y. Wu, Glamour, 16 Jan. 2025
Adding up weekly hours on the job and breaks between jobs reveals a 14% difference in time worked over a decade.
—Kweilin Ellingrud, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for work over
Verb
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Marchand has crossed lines by licking players, or repeatedly punching a hockey pacifist like Vancouver’s Daniel Sedin in a final series.—
Dave Hyde,
Sun Sentinel,
29 Mar. 2025
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Hamas, Hezbollah, and Houthis are licking their chops.—
Jeffrey Gedmin,
National Review,
27 Mar. 2025
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The ancient springhead, natural waterpark, and retro roadside attraction has more than a few secrets hidden in its eelgrass.—
Kelsey Glennon,
Southern Living,
22 Mar. 2025
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That event presented an opportunity that was too good to pass up: the chance to explore the seafloor below the iceberg’s original location—like overturning a rock or log in the woods to see what creatures lie hidden underneath.—
Ashley Balzer Vigil,
Scientific American,
21 Mar. 2025
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Schumer has taken a public pounding from his party's base, not to mention House Democrats, since voting to keep the government open last week.—
Stephen Neukam,
Axios,
19 Mar. 2025
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Southern California was being pounded by a major storm Thursday morning, bringing evacuation warnings and fears of mudslides.—
Shelby Grad,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Mar. 2025
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However, Cabello lashed out at U.S. authorities, accusing them of unjustly detaining and deporting Venezuelans under false claims of gang affiliations.—
Antonio Maria Delgado,
Miami Herald,
28 Mar. 2025
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In early March, tropical storm Alfred battered Australia’s heavily populated east coast, lashing the region with damaging winds and heavy rain for several days as hundreds of thousands of homes in southeast Queensland and northern New South Wales lost power.—
Edward Szekeres and Helen Regan,
CNN Money,
28 Mar. 2025
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And when we were done talking about that, I was spun out, he was spun out.—
Daniel Kreps,
Rolling Stone,
23 Mar. 2025
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This was the best of both creative stimulating worlds, essentially doing a play on screen.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
23 Mar. 2025
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Joshua Hur hit a home run, Trey Ebel had a two-run double and Ethan Bingaman contributed an RBI triple.—
Eric Sondheimer,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Mar. 2025
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The purge led to a wave of artistic resignations and withdrawals; opera star Renée Fleming gave up her position as artistic adviser to the center, and the producers of the Broadway hit Hamilton withdrew the show from a scheduled engagement, among others.—
Chloe Veltman,
NPR,
26 Mar. 2025
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Simultaneously punched out, yet refusing to stay down for the count, a gruff Smith does his actorly best to understand, then diss, his public’s view of the slap heard round the world.—
A.D. Amorosi,
Variety,
28 Mar. 2025
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The alleged victim told troopers that, following the disturbance, the men left then returned a short time later and allegedly physically assaulted him and punched out windows in the garage, according to state police.—
Staff report,
Hartford Courant,
26 Mar. 2025
Verb
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Meister can often immediately identify on an MRI that a pitcher throws a sweeper—a hard slider that the pitcher whips to get about fifteen inches of horizontal movement from the ball.—
Lindsey Adler,
New Yorker,
30 Mar. 2025
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The moment, which made the episode’s final cut, occurs when Drummond whips Mark S. around and pushes him into a wall.—
Devon Ivie,
Vulture,
27 Mar. 2025
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