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“Nick is flogging a dead horse in his theories,” Aidan Dodson, an Egyptologist at the University of Bristol, said.

From New York Times • Oct. 30, 2022

That at least is the message from the retired experimental physicist Leon Lederman, who is flogging his Nobel prize medal.

From The Guardian • May 27, 2015

A couple is flogging a collection of Care Bears, and so on.

From Slate • Jan. 8, 2012

Washington is flogging the agencies in public, but the dirty little secret is that the government relies on ratings heavily and shows no sign of changing.

From Washington Post • May 9, 2010

There is something respectable in the names of a Spanish fleet; and one feels that he is flogging gentlemen, at least, while he is at work on them.

From The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet by Cooper, James Fenimore