rebuke

“Because of this purposeful inaccuracy, she will be reported to the FCC for rebuke or punishment.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026

The menu, embracing its red-hued simplicity, almost reads as a rebuke to its competitors.

From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026

That visit sparked fury in China and South Korea and even a rare rebuke from close ally the United States.

From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026

Messi’s hat trick was a noisy rebuke to the skeptics who worry he’s lost a step, who think his sunny coda with the MLS’s Inter Miami is akin to a sun-tanned semiretirement.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026

It was not a rebuke or a mark of ill-favor.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

But such sharp rebukes may well suggest the former first minister's standing in the party has shrunk.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

But the internal rebukes were particularly cutting—and posed the greatest risk.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026

Public rebukes followed Hegseth’s decision last month to effectively fire Gen. Chris Donahue, a respected four-star commander who came up the ranks through the special forces.

From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2026

So judges keep ordering ICE to release detainees—orders the agency has repeatedly flouted, prompting scathing judicial rebukes around the country.

From Slate ● Feb. 10, 2026

I’m so used to it that I’ve become completely indifferent to Mother’s rebukes and Margot’s moodiness.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

They will also be the first under new Federal Reserve boss Kevin Warsh after he last month replaced Jerome Powell, who was constantly rebuked by Trump for not cutting interest rates enough.

From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 2026

Heath and his siblings were rebuked by their neighbors, Heath said, to the point that his brother, Phil, told the township attorney he was thinking about resigning as supervisor.

From Salon ● Apr. 27, 2026

French President Jacques Chirac, a strong opponent of the effort in Iraq, rebuked them for having “missed a great opportunity to shut up.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 6, 2026

The governor’s office sharply rebuked the court’s action.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2026

“Don’t you ever make fun of those people again, you hear?” she rebuked me.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

Misty Copeland, the trailblazing ballet star formerly of the American Ballet Theatre, has joined the chorus of fine arts personalities rebuking Timothée Chalamet for his dismissive comments about ballet and opera.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2026

Starmer, who for a year has assiduously courted the president and held off publicly rebuking him, has now changed course.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026

At its peak, there were over 6,000 Shakers, joining Ann in rebuking the gruesome, incalculable evils of war and preaching moral generosity.

From Salon ● Dec. 27, 2025

His stand-up routine included jokes about dating, autism and Tourette’s, and he got extra laughs after rebuking head judge Simon Cowell.

From BBC ● May 25, 2024

I did not sleep that night, but lay awake rebuking myself for running away in fear.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein