admonished
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There’s established law there, and trial courts have, on the whole, held, and when they haven’t, they’ve been admonished or overturned on appeal.
From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2026
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
Or, as Patchett’s mother once admonished after the failure of her daughter’s first marriage: “Stop trying to make everything permanent. It doesn’t work.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026
Poppy admonished her, “They think you're destitute if you dress like that.”
From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye
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