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as in to whip
to defeat by a large margin
with the economy having gone south, it was hardly surprising that the incumbent party got pasted in the general election
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as in to slap
to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner
pasted the soccer ball halfway across the field
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as in epoxy
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Recent Examples of paste
Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 6 Jan. 2026
Either paste the wall or peel and stick.
—Kaitlyn Keegan, Hartford Courant, 4 Jan. 2026
New Atlas, 29 Oct. 2025
The texture is nice—a smooth, teeth-scraping paste.
—Alex Beggs, Bon Appetit Magazine, 28 Oct. 2025
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Verb
Kusilek, who quarterbacked the Falcons from 2012-15, earning all-WIAC Conference honors, stood with a smile pasted to his face and his eyes glued to Wisconsin-River Falls coach Matt Walker as the final minute of time ticked off the clock.
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After many false starts and setbacks, both technical and financial, the final result was a pen with a steel ball in a socket and an ink barrel filled with an ink paste that didn't evaporate like conventional ink.
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Verb
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There were some frightening moments early Monday for a Miramar man after police say he was pistol whipped during a home invasion and his French bulldog was stolen.—
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Or whips around his defender in a bold pirouette.—
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Five players were booked during their defeat to Cameroon, including Foster, who slapped the linesman’s hand twice and screamed in his face in frustration over a decision.—
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Mimicking what happened seven years earlier after the Dallas playoff win in Charlotte, the players ran back outside and took a lap around the stadium, slapping hands with delirious home fans.—
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According to Buder, who also works as an engineer at Vielo, the aircraft-grade carbon tubes were first cleaned and cut to size, then bonded using an epoxy-carbon composite.—
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An eight-car garage has epoxy floors and an EV charging station.—
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The only way that the uranium-lead ratio can be compatible with the hafnium in the zircons, Whitehouse argued, is if the zircons that settled in the silt had crystallized around 2.8 billion years ago, constraining the organic carbon to being no older than that.—
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The gold standard and easiest way to date very old rock formations is with a very tough mineral known as a zircon.—
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In the fall, the workers trade in their pruning shears for knives sharp enough to skin a deer in minutes.—
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All of them knew how to skin a deer.—
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One defensive stop later, and the Hurricanes clinched their 31-27 win over the Rebels to punch their ticket into the national championship game.—
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The Ravens battled the Pittsburgh Steelers in a crucial division matchup, where the winner would be crowned AFC North champs and punch its ticket into the postseason, while the loser would be sent packing.—
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Okra Okra is known for its sticky mucilage, which works as a thickening agent for stews and gumbo.—
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But lately, a lot of growers in Latin America and Africa have begun to try out natural process beans, fermenting some of the coffee berry sugars or mucilage.—
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Top off the look with a black rhinestone clutch and pearl drop earrings, which add just the right amount of contrast and polish for a picture-perfect New Year’s Eve ensemble.—
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Her rhinestone freckles for our Weather-Maxxer look were nothing short of magical.—
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“Paste.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/paste. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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