chide
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He suggested it had material useful to Iran’s war effort and seemed to chide China’s leader, Xi Jinping.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026
Human beings as a whole do not employ the same ethics a responsible newspaper does — though today many of us chide the press solely when the news is unfavorable to our own personal prejudices.
From Salon ● Feb. 6, 2026
It’s time to identify trends, recognize teams that greatly improved and chide those who stood pat or took a step backward.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2025
While they often chide guests for not owning Apple—or enough Apple—they never blame anyone for shunning Nvidia.
From Slate ● Feb. 19, 2024
He then went on to chide Jefferson for talking like an old man.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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When Teng feels that including a photo of dead children violates their dignity, Perlmutter chides her, insisting that their obligation is to show Americans what their tax dollars are funding.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
Epstein advises him on the sale of his healthcare business, and chides him for not being careful enough in checking out the background of a new contact.
From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2026
She grows increasingly obsessed with the missing girl, and then with Cleo, who chides Maddie, perhaps from the grave, for missing the big picture.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2024
Contemplating escaping Rome, she talks of buying an island; Marcello chides her: “Your problem is you have too much money.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 18, 2024
Mary Lincoln chides her husband, standing in his office doorway.
From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly
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Ministers have said the policy, which could be worth as much as £20 a week per chid, was unaffordable and always time-limited.
From BBC ● Jan. 23, 2024
Fed up and enraged, the king angrily chid, “Wear your armor all day, like the dasypodid!”
From Washington Post ● Jul. 21, 2022
Bell’s current list of charities covers a staggering amount of ground: animal rights, prostate cancer, stem cell donation, Alzheimer’s disease, international child hunger, domestic chid poverty and young mothers raised in foster care.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 26, 2018
“My refusing to eat Flesh occasioned an Inconveniency,” Franklin later recalled, “and I was frequently chid for my singularity.”
From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2014
The other made some demur, lingering at the foot of the ladder and looking up as if afraid, until her companion chid her sharply.
From The Story of Francis Cludde by Stanley John Weyman
Musk has frequently chided SoftBank, which is a major investor in OpenAI, the artificial-intelligence company that the world’s richest person unsuccessfully sued this year over its transition into a for-profit structure.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 10, 2026
Reaves chided Doncic about losing in rowing, bowling and golf while they were in Slovenia together.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
Korner chided the prosecution for "wholesale dumping" of documents and urged the parties to work together to reduce the size of the case file.
From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026
In the first week of trial, she chided Musk for recent posts to his social media platform X, in which he spoke disparagingly of OpenAI and Sam Altman, whom he referred to as "Scam Altman".
From BBC ● May 6, 2026
“A puff of breath would have extinguished your candle,” 03-01 chided, standing in the door — which now was wide open—behind me.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
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Helen Burns asked some slight question about her work of Miss Smith, was chidden for the triviality of the inquiry, returned to her place, and smiled at me as she again went by.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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I am not a child that needs to be chidden with the rod or with harsh speeches; and my father's blood boils as fiercely in my veins as the blood of the Douglas in yours.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 15 by Various
Our merry laugh is not chidden, and we are early taught to minister to others.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. by Various
She declared her intention to accompany me to the ends of the earth; and had to be chidden by her sire for drawing comparisons between myself and her Uncle William, highly damaging to the latter.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
It was for this that His followers had chidden her.
From The Gospel According to St. Mark by G. A. Chadwick
Less than 24 hours after that chiding, Amorim was sacked, and the focus was on the part Wilcox played in that.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
Museveni, who has ruled the country since 1986, routinely addresses the nation on TV, chiding residents to adhere to proper hygiene and other preventive measures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
Gigi now starts each video chiding commentators who accuse her of being AI.
From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2025
Earlier that month, Ely had written to Perkins again, affectionately chiding her for missing a social gathering and exclaiming, “I feel lost in the new Immigration set-up!”
From Slate ● Jan. 26, 2025
Later Booth would write a letter to Dr. Stuart, chiding him for his lack of Southern hospitality and honor.
From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson
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