Thesaurus results for FLAGELLATES

flagellates

verb

present tense third-person singular of flagellate

as in whips

to strike repeatedly with something long and thin or flexible some medieval monks believed it was necessary to flagellate themselves in order to keep their desires in check

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Castro whips her head around and follows him, punching him in the back.

— Iris Kwok, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2026
Green whips out his phone with the fluid motion of a digital native and snaps a photo.

— Hillary Busis, Vanity Fair, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of whips

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That gap is where debt hides until something goes wrong across agents and everyone can say their piece worked as designed.

— Venkatesh Sankaran, Forbes.com, 5 Oct. 2026
The league usually hides these blunders behind closed doors and quiet internal grading-system tweaks.

— Alejandro Avila OutKick, FOXNews.com, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of hides

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Northrop Grumman slashes overall weight and reduces total part counts, manufacturing combat-ready autonomous jets at a fraction of typical costs.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 5 Oct. 2026
The company wants Starship to be a fully and rapidly reusable transport system that slashes the cost of spaceflight.

— Sven Bilén, The Conversation, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of slashes

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Fernandes then flicks the ball to his team-mate and Mainoo rattles the woodwork, with Anderson unable to block the shot.

— Ahmed Walid, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026
As if to signal this iteration hasn’t completely deviated from its roots, in the show’s opening moments, Deborah Wayne coolly flicks the iconic flip-up frames made famous by Hardison’s Dwayne.

— Senior Television, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of flicks

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Starting Tuesday, all this becomes Wall Street official when PSKY switches to SKYD on the ticker.

— James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 2 Oct. 2026
The broadcast then switches to what appears to be an MTV News update from Kurt Loder about search-and-rescue teams in Canada.

— Deirdre Durkan, PEOPLE, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of switches

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Their good fortune is picking up speed, as the increasingly sclerotic and daft president furiously flails.

— Laura Washington, Chicago Tribune, 23 Sep. 2026
As the economy flails and the war in Iraq wages on, 58% of people disapprove of the president, according to a New York Times aggregation of polls.

— Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Sep. 2026

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