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Exchanges create incentives for finding the truth, using market forces to burn away bias, while sportsbooks punish knowledge.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

Surely, though, it must be possible to punish a company for being reckless or negligent in its use of A.I., even if no one gave an agent a prompt like “Do some crimes.”

From Slate ● Oct. 25, 2026

But Pia Sinha, the CEO of Prison Reform Trust, has called for evidence that sanctions will increase attendance and warned the measures will punish relatives of prisoners who "have committed no offence themselves".

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

“The market demands Goldilocks. Spend too little, they punish you. Spend too much, they certainly punish you,” Direxion’s Lee told MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

Another time when the boat he was in was tossed about by the waves he told the waters that he would punish them if they did not grow calm.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

“The same rate hike that helps a CD also punishes anyone carrying a credit-card balance.”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026

To recap: Purcell punishes a plaintiff in voting cases for being too late to court.

From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2026

Thailand has strict gun laws, which punishes the illegal possession of arms with up to 10 years in jail.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026

Open always walks a tightrope between presenting a difficult test—one that rewards good shots and appropriately punishes bad ones—and creating conditions that veer into the absurd.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026

Any system that constricts teachers—holds them to small-bore metrics, punishes them for forces outside their control, discourages their creativity and spontaneity, chips away at their humanity—is a bad system.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove

This phenomenon stems in part from the just-world cognitive bias, the tendency to believe that the world is fundamentally fair and that good people are rewarded while bad people are punished.

From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2026

Bass said that when she toured police station houses after being elected, the number one complaint she heard was about the perception that lower-ranking officers are punished more severely than command staff.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

Rhoad's fiancee Natalie Weirtz told the court by video call that the accused "must be punished so that no other family suffers the same pain."

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

Ronaldo apologised to fans and team-mates for leaving the camp and said the consequences of that must be "assessed and punished" while also dismissing any suggestion that he had played his last match for Portugal.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

Poseidon was greatly angered and punished the people by sending a disastrous flood.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

Rather than rebuild against lesser opposition following May's punishing defeat, Wardley gambled on an immediate rematch with one of the division's most destructive punchers.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

The famed railroad line along the San Clemente coast has found itself on the endangered list amid a relentless assault from rising seas and punishing surf.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

The primary culprit, this time around, was a punishing bond selloff powered by rising oil prices, ballooning deficits and resilient economic growth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

She says I’m putting a price on her contribution as a wife and mother and punishing her for not having a career.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

Coach had us run suicides for twenty minutes, his way of punishing us for being part of something stupid.

From "Here to Stay" by Sara Farizan