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- verb Present participle of
savage .
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Examples
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What's scary is that the fate of the novel probably rests on those first three chapters, and barring a real savaging from the crit group, what I have now is what an agent or editor will get on their desk.
Revision - Chapter 3 done zornhau 2006
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The last person to get the kind of savaging that Palin has received was Clarence Thomas.
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Isn't it the case that some of the newspapers that would have liked to have bought Paul Burrell's story, but didn't, have now turned around and kind of savaging him and it kind of suggests that, you know, maybe if your newspaper had gotten the exclusive interview, maybe you'd be saying nice things about him.
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Thus the decision-makers face a dilemma: Should they raise interest rates and prevent a real estate bubble, despite all the other problems it could create such as savaging Israeli exports and jobs?
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This sounds remarkably like Geoffrey Howe 'savaging' Thatcher - like a dead sheep, etc.
politicalbetting.com 2009
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We have never had this kind of savaging of financial assets in history.
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TeamPOLITICO: Dec. 3, 2009 - 3: 59 PM EST the tea party movement is "savaging" the Republican Party and is already proving
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It's a fair point, and Scarborough can prove it tomorrow by "savaging" a white candidate with ties to white terrorists, and encouraging the canddiate to distance himself immediately.
RHRealityCheck.org Scott Swenson 2008
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My own mother, born in India, recalls an afternoon a few years ago when she sat aghast as the California women around her started savaging their mothers; in old-world societies, the mother is still an object of gratitude, even devotion, and seldom public abuse.
Lost in a World Without Roots Pico Iyer 2011
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I have never forgotten the sight of the red proscenium curtain of the Morosco hanging vulnerably, forlornly as the wrecker's ball was savaging the side wall.
Howard Kissel: The War Between Dream Girls and Nine Howard Kissel 2011
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