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But approach the stocks and pillories in front of the courthouse to recreate a goofy photo from a long-ago school trip, and you will find the headpieces bolted shut.

From New York Times • May 8, 2023

They've called their album "the record", in a play on the faux-humility of Bob Dylan's backing group The Band; while the song Leonard Cohen simultaneously praises and pillories one of Dacus's inspirations.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2023

The fact that these authorities do not address the general public, unlike the intellectuals Ross pillories, does not raise his democratic hackles.

From Salon • Dec. 25, 2021

I shall have to humiliate them in the pillories of the national charts, and in doing so buy myself a big house.

From The Guardian • Aug. 29, 2019

Paper pillories are always very popular in Paris, and under the Commune the heads of Tropmann and Thiers were exhibited in a wooden vice, inscribed Pantin and Neuilly underneath.

From Paris under the Commune The Seventy-Three Days of the Second Siege; with Numerous Illustrations, Sketches Taken on the Spot, and Portraits (from the Original Photographs) by Leighton, John