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
When the packages arrived, I pried open a pack and popped the top mint into my mouth, despite my wife’s admonition, “Are you insane?”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026
The “go it slow” admonition was the mother’s milk of Democratic politics.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 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
"Nothing holds an edge like Valyrian steel," Little-finger said as Varys sucked at his bleeding thumb and looked at Catelyn with sullen admonition.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
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
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
Mexico sent a diplomat note to Washington expressing displeasure with the admonitions from Salazar.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2024
Usually, Dede was full of admonitions about Jaimito’s reckless driving, but now she found herself pressing her own foot on an invisible gas pedal.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
Vocabulary lists containing admonition
The Giver
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