spank
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"He absolutely didn't deserve that. Some of those fans should take a long, hard look at themselves for the way they mocked him. I hope Villa go there and spank them, just because of that."
From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2025
Putin responded that “it’s better not to spank children and not to cite traditions,” but agreed that “unceremonious interference with the family is unacceptable,” and promised to review the law.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 14, 2021
La Russa pledged “there will be a consequence he has to endure here within our family” and joked he wouldn’t spank him because he’s “too big and strong.”
From Slate ● May 19, 2021
November saw Tottenham spank Chelsea at Wembley and Manchester City claim victory in the first Manchester derby of the season.
From The Guardian ● May 14, 2019
They don’t spank us or rap us on the knuckles with rulers or wash our mouths out with soap, all of that stuff you read about in old-fashioned books.
From "P.S. I Miss You" by Jen Petro-Roy
Perhaps it’s because it’s by and about women that it spanks the whole bunch of “prestigious” puzzle TV shows, by never letting the puzzle swamp its characters or their psychologies.
From Slate ● Jan. 31, 2019
For another thing, the movie effectively spanks snobs who claim that people aren’t into books anymore.
From Washington Post ● May 21, 2018
Barney Ronay Vardy spanks it past Mignolet on the run.
From The Guardian ● May 15, 2016
Rapinoe with it … and she spanks it into orbit.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 12, 2015
The bears disappeared in the direction from which they had come, the cubs urged on with spanks from behind as all vanished in the falling snow.
From Wild Life on the Rockies by Enos Abijah Mills
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