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Trouncing these righties is the first order of business.
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Trouncing functionalism, efficiency, the monochromatic and just about every other revered tenet of the postwar modern, postmodernism unleashed a bacchanalia of creative output, a vast sampling of which is here on display.
History, Repeating Itself Julie V. Iovine 2011
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Trouncing the competition, its propagandising for Tea Party views misinforms the electorate on just about everything: it is rivetingly frightening viewing.
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Trouncing him, with more than 100,000 votes and 59% of the total, was one Alvin Greene.
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Trouncing a critically acclaimed work just because one didn't understand it because it's too hard indeed smacked of something unswallowable.
And Another Two... 2008
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(Trouncing John McCain in the Kansas caucus on Saturday didn't hurt, either.)
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As I pointed out earlier, when a story ends with Hero Trouncing Villain, the reader tends to assume that the villain was hauled off to a nice quiet cell, under the care of the regular justice system.
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Trouncing a critically acclaimed work just because one didn't understand it because it's too hard indeed smacked of something unswallowable.
Archive 2008-05-01 2008
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Trouncing an estimate of $10,000 to $20,000, the presidential penmanship achieved $34,500.
Presidential Paper Artfact.com Julie Carlson 2006
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But that same persistent Ambition kept sending him back to the Ring to take another Trouncing.
Ade's Fables George Ade 1905
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