admonition

"You have no previous convictions and I have taken the view that admonition is appropriate."

From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026

The admonition was met with silence in the courtroom.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 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

Third, every parent should abide by an admonition frequently offered by my famous pediatrician father: “I never met a child spoiled for having been told too many times that they were loved.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025

According to the Daily News's astrologer, you must “demand more of yourself,” an admonition that is also vague but also different.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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

For example, if you see an attorney running afoul of procedural rules or admonitions that you’ve given them, you need to resist calling out that attorney in front of the client or the jury.

From Salon ● Feb. 2, 2024

For three hours—until six o’clock—he persisted in the same inexorable vein: that Judge Fielding’s admonitions should be heeded with the utmost seriousness and that reasonable doubt existed.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson