admonition
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"You have no previous convictions and I have taken the view that admonition is appropriate."
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
Jessica Lautz, vice president of research at the National Association of Realtors, offers this admonition to homeowners selling for the first time in years: “It’s a very different housing market today.”
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 30, 2025
Eilish’s admonition and Parton’s example resonates because it underscores a broader cultural conversation: wealth comes with choices.
From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2025
Mr. Cash’s message to Mr. Berry that “you’re in spy territory now” or an admonition that a bit of gossip was “very off the record” might be inculpatory if taken literally.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025
He issued instructions that anticipated by many years Louis Sullivan’s famous admonition that form must follow function.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
Given the IRS’s guidance and admonitions, tax professionals said, most taxpayers didn’t roll the dice on that literal reading.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 16, 2026
Criminologists tend to speak in caveats, with warning of reversion to the mean and admonitions to wait for better data, but even they must admit: These are some eye-catching numbers.
From Slate ● May 7, 2025
Respected by fire agencies across the country, Cohen and Pyne have found their straight-talk admonitions often disregarded or dismissed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2025
Despite decades of admonitions from nutritionists and environmentalists to “eat locally, think globally,” our collective diets are more international than ever.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 26, 2024
On the contrary, all I ever got were admonitions not to be so noisy.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
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The Giver
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