admonished
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Armstrong, crypto’s highest-profile advocate on the Hill, admonished the senator for changes she was pushing that could have hit the brakes on Coinbase’s ability to pay interest-like rewards on digital tokens.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
Professor Derek Manas, the medical director of NHS Blood and Transplant, admonished NHS England for creating a system with a burnt-out workforce, "few consequences for poor performance" and operations cancelled "last-minute".
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
Connolly has been admonished three times by the California Commission on Judicial Performance, most recently in 2021, for two incidents.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026
“We can never recapture the purchasing power of the dollar that has been lost,” the chairman admonished his colleagues in August 1955—even as the consumer-price index registered a rare, small year-over-year decline.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026
At that moment, their producer had passed by and admonished them both—as if Lyla had been doing anything more than just listening.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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