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as in to attack
to criticize harshly and usually publicly
the mayor had hardly been in office for a month before she was being excoriated for problems of very long standing
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The season repeatedly indicts the Milwaukee police for its apparent indifference to Dahmer’s victims, many of whom were Black or brown and gay, and excoriates true-crime aficionados for their callousness toward the victims and their families.
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Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2024
Paddy grinds it to a halt several times, excoriating Ant for not performing his part well enough.
—Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 10 Sep. 2024
Nationally syndicated Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson, once a presidential speechwriter for George W. Bush, repeatedly excoriated evangelical support of Trump.
—Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 22 Sep. 2024
Starring Jonathan Bennett, Tim Meadows, Amanda Seyfried, Ana Gasteyer, Amy Poehler, Lizzy Caplan and Fey, the bubbly pink yet darkly satisfying movie excoriates the impossibilities of teen girlhood and the chaos that ensues when an outsider is enlisted to spy on the most popular group in school.
—Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 9 Sep. 2024
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Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2024
Paddy grinds it to a halt several times, excoriating Ant for not performing his part well enough.
—Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 10 Sep. 2024
Nationally syndicated Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson, once a presidential speechwriter for George W. Bush, repeatedly excoriated evangelical support of Trump.
—Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 22 Sep. 2024
Starring Jonathan Bennett, Tim Meadows, Amanda Seyfried, Ana Gasteyer, Amy Poehler, Lizzy Caplan and Fey, the bubbly pink yet darkly satisfying movie excoriates the impossibilities of teen girlhood and the chaos that ensues when an outsider is enlisted to spy on the most popular group in school.
—Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 9 Sep. 2024
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Videos later emerged showing the friends physically attacking Robinson, but the FBI never charged anyone or made any arrests in the case.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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Ukraine has allegedly repeatedly attacked this air base with drones, including as recently as mid-September.William M. Moon, Foreign Affairs, 5 Nov. 2024
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Always repeating a question is irritating and starts to suggest that something is amiss.Lance Eliot, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
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Use non-abrasive, gentle facial cleaners, and use your hands instead of washcloths, sponges, or irritating substances.Mark Gurarie, Health, 28 Oct. 2024
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Still, watching Hannah scold him about everything, from 401(k)s to boiling water to phone bills, from ordering him to walk a dog that doesn’t belong to him to telling him that riding hotel pool furniture would give her the ick, was painful.Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 31 Oct. 2024
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Dolores returns to scold her grandson for badmouthing her during the show’s Día de los Muertos episode, which airs on NBC on Friday, Oct. 25.Brendan Le, People.com, 25 Oct. 2024
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Later that year, he was blamed — and later sued — for the cancellation of a music festival in Malaysia after criticizing the country’s anti-LGBTQ+ laws before kissing bassist Ross MacDonald.Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2024
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Republican candidate Donald Trump has also criticized inflation and has pushed for tariffs to address the issue.Gabrielle Fonrouge,Jacob Pramuk, CNBC, 24 Oct. 2024
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The report covers a month in which hurricanes Helene and Milton slammed the Southeast – Florida and North Carolina in particular – while the Boeing strike also hit what had been a vibrant though slowing labor market.Jeff Cox, CNBC, 1 Nov. 2024
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The lawsuit was slammed by prominent First Amendment attorneys, who called it meritless and absurd.Rashard Rose and Jon Passantino, CNN, 1 Nov. 2024
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At both churches, Harris delivered a message about kindness and lifting people up rather than insulting them, trying to set up an implicit contrast with Republican Donald Trump’s brash style.Colleen Long, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2024
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Clearly, when the town is populated mostly by total morons whose only qualities are complaining and insulting one another, Jade is correct.Erik Kain, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
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