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Recent Examples of scandalize
Entertainment Weekly's free daily newsletter Fans of American Horror Story: Asylum won’t be too scandalized by the cut spanking scene — beyond being a plausible incident, spanking was a common occurrence in the show’s sophomore outing.
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Shania Russell, EW.com, 3 Oct. 2024
At four years old, Bowen scandalized them by doing a striptease to Céline Dion in the living room.
—Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024
Online, scandalized viewers torched the appearance.
—Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2024
Elsa’s father, Ferdinando, was as rich as Croesus but, scandalized by his daughter turning her back on the family’s prim, conservative ways, left her to make a living for herself.
—Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 5 Aug. 2024
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Shania Russell, EW.com, 3 Oct. 2024
At four years old, Bowen scandalized them by doing a striptease to Céline Dion in the living room.
—Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024
Online, scandalized viewers torched the appearance.
—Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2024
Elsa’s father, Ferdinando, was as rich as Croesus but, scandalized by his daughter turning her back on the family’s prim, conservative ways, left her to make a living for herself.
—Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 5 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scandalize
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Donald Trump is not a politician who guards his words carefully to avoid offending anyone.DP Opinion, The Denver Post, 1 Nov. 2024
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The offending comedic act equated Puerto Rico to a floating island of garbage, touching a sore spot and potentially energizing key groups of low-propensity or undecided Puerto Rican voters in swing states.Rafael Bernal, The Hill, 31 Oct. 2024
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For example, for fear of displeasing its neighbor, South Korea has limited its missile defense program to mostly short-range technology.Robert A. Manning, Foreign Affairs, 3 Oct. 2014
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Kissinger was well known for seducing journalists with flattery, access, and scoops, never losing his composure when something in the press displeased him.Yiyun Li, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
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The remark outraged conservatives, even as the White House disputed the interpretation of what the president meant.Niall Stanage, The Hill, 30 Oct. 2024
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Vance is equally fluent in the language of the national élite, and therefore knows how to get the national media to cover his crazy theories, and how to get national people outraged by them.David Fontana, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
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Damien Leone’s ongoing saga about the sadistic murderer Art the Clown continues to defy expectations by raking in huge box-office receipts on small budgets, with much of the success coming from the series’ reputation for nauseating practical effects.Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 4 Nov. 2024
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This is an ooey, gooey, and fresh werewolf flick with a bevy of nauseating practical effects and the sort of winking cinematic homages for which director Joe Dante is best known.EW.com, EW.com, 31 Oct. 2024
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Foodborne pathogens sicken one in six Americans annually, leading to 128,000 hospitalizations and 3,000 deaths, according to the FDA.Louis Biscotti, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2024
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By May 2020, almost 6000 people had been sickened and some 800 had died.ByKai Kupferschmidt, science.org, 31 Oct. 2024
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Like the film itself, Hanks is no-nonsense as a commander who reveals little about himself between barking orders and offering steely words of encouragement to the inexperienced, frightened young men around him.Tim Grierson, Vulture, 2 Nov. 2024
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Researchers estimate that in the United States, wildfire smoke claims 5,000 to 15,000 lives each year — yet these deaths don’t get attention because there is no dramatic footage of flames to frighten us.Nicholas Kristof, The Mercury News, 17 Sep. 2024
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The Importance Of The Distilleries To The War Effort The other side of this story is how many on social media were quick to joke that Russians may revolt if the nation's vodka producers are taken offline.Peter Suciu, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
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There was a lot of speculation that the outages would hurt their business from customers revolting, resulting in a loss in market share.Jeff Marks, CNBC, 16 Oct. 2024
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The two played four minutes together during one of the Lakers’ six preseason games, a moment that left LeBron James amazed.Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2024
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The title signals the jump scare that the image maker hoped would likewise amaze the viewer when the 3D ghost loomed before their very eyes.Andrea Kaston Tange, The Conversation, 22 Oct. 2024
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“Scandalize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scandalize. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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