admonition
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"You have no previous convictions and I have taken the view that admonition is appropriate."
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
When the packages arrived, I pried open a pack and popped the top mint into my mouth, despite my wife’s admonition, “Are you insane?”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026
Beshear’s not-yet-candidacy, still in the fledgling phase, offers a mix of aspiration and admonition.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 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
He issued instructions that anticipated by many years Louis Sullivan’s famous admonition that form must follow function.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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
"And this is what was worked out. Notice Kaplan's strict admonitions in advance—he handled Trump well, as no other J has."
From Salon ● Jan. 25, 2024
Dad reissued his usual string of father-to-teenage-son admonitions about what Cade and I should not do while he was gone.
From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith
Vocabulary lists containing admonition
The Giver
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