rebuke
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Appeared in the December 20, 2025, print edition as 'A Big IPO, a Tesla Rebuke, More Hollywood Drama'.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025
He said, “Learn to do good; Seek justice, Rebuke the oppressor; Defend the fatherless, Plead for the widow.”
From Washington Post • Sep. 10, 2021
Rebuke is actually too frivolous a word for the contumely Mr. Wolfe looses in his direction.
From New York Times • Aug. 30, 2016
Deutsche Bank Earnings Beat Expectations Shareholders Rebuke Murdoch’s Sons Wanted: A reliable overseas business partner to invest more than $1 billion trapped in Nigeria.
From New York Times • Oct. 25, 2011
In mercy, not in wrath, Rebuke me, gracious Lawd Les' when Dy whole displeasure rise, I sink beneath Dy rod.
From Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume I, Alabama Narratives by United States. Work Projects Administration
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