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Only then, when he has excoriated all of the "flim-flam" and removed the "fat off of the bones," does he believe that the song is once and truly written.

From Salon • Sep. 25, 2021

And he has excoriated reporters who posed questions he did not like.

From Washington Post • Apr. 8, 2020

He has excoriated Mr. Cohn privately for choosing to leave.

From New York Times • Mar. 7, 2018

That’s a fitting existential question from a satirist who has excoriated the sins of the real and the holy.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 29, 2017

This excoriated, scabby area contains crowds of staphylococci which find a nidus here, where the copious tear-flow down the nostrils has excoriated and irritated the skin.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various