chasten

With the board that tried to chasten him swapped out, Altman has a lot of leeway to make occasional principled stands while making zillions of dollars, or not.

From Slate ● Nov. 27, 2023

But his assault seemed to chasten Israel’s media and chattering classes.

From New York Times ● Apr. 10, 2023

Videos of those horrible patients should also chasten conservatives, because they don’t come from nowhere; they aren’t made up.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 6, 2022

People are reminded during a crisis like this that a local newspaper is a central thread that stitches neighbors together with birthday photos that make grandma happy and crime reports that chasten the scofflaw.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 6, 2020

In school Kantorek used to chasten Mittelstaedt with exactly the same expression—“Inadequate, Mittelstaedt, quite inadequate.”

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque

Her humility, even in recollection, chastens him with “the true absurdity of almost all the ambitions which coursed through my younger self when I wanted to be a famous writer.”

From Washington Post ● Nov. 23, 2022

Eventually, however, Lear’s tragic ordeal chastens him and leads him to self-awareness and repentance.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 14, 2022

As the climate crisis chastens and public awareness grows, environmental concerns have finally made their way to the video game industry.

From The Verge ● Dec. 5, 2019

A tender 1960s portrait of the aged social activist Dorothy Day chastens and deepens the smirky irreverence of the Chicago Seven’s yippie posturing.

From New York Times ● Jul. 5, 2012

He rebukes our wrong actions, and chastens us for our good.

From Story of Chester Lawrence by Nephi Anderson

Every time he felt he had made progress, Antonelli's apparently effortless way of extracting that little bit more from the car chastened him.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

The last we last see of Hansen, muttering lines from his script as the police process the Conradt crime scene, suggests a man distubred, perhaps even chastened, by what he has witnessed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

The ICC will vote on his removal this month, after two years of delay, but don’t think the court is chastened.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

Marx, W. David concludes with some chastened suggestions for reconstructing a culture capable of producing “artworks that expand the possibilities of human perception.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025

And it wasn’t just our team that was chastened and doubtful.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

Chelsea's chastening 8-2 Champions League defeat by Paris St-Germain last season was a turning point.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

But it was the sight of loosehead prop Ox Nche stampeding through Ollie Chessum and Jamie George, with the England defence desperately, vainly backpedalling, that summed up a brutally chastening opening salvo.

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026

Knowing a draw would almost certainly be enough to reach the last 32, Steve Clarke's side suffered a chastening 3-0 defeat by Brazil to finish third in Group C.

From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026

The genius needed chastening, and in “Steve Jobs in Exile” you can witness it happening, sometimes day by day.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 17, 2026

Isaac was laughing, but Patrick raised a chastening finger and said, “Augustus, please. Let’s return to you and your struggles. You said you fear oblivion?”

From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green