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As Llano struggled, The Times, in splashy headlines, missed no opportunity, and made a few of them too, to crow over every crisis that beset Llano: “Oligarchy of Misrule”; “Perquisites of Czar.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2021
“It’s heartbreaking. I’ve ate a lot of crow over this one.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 10, 2020
Mr. Scaramucci, who also has a weekly podcast with wife Deirdre called “Mooch and the Mrs.,” acknowledges that he has “eaten crow over the last two or three years.”
From Washington Times ● Aug. 19, 2019
Technology allowed, or emboldened, Mays to crow over his fell deeds, but it also trapped him.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 22, 2019
It was her custom to read your letters aloud to us and crow over them, thinking it a feather in her cap to be writing to royalty, such as yourself.
From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
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