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Central Command, which plans and executes military operations in the Middle East, emailed a broad group of analysts and officers, asking for “new creative and unconventional ways to pressure and punish Iran.”

From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2026

Lithuanian Foreign Minister Kestutis Budrys called for more to be done to punish Moscow for its actions.

From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026

Federal law prohibits the FCC from censoring broadcasters, and the First Amendment sharply limits the government’s ability to punish news organizations for their editorial decisions.

From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026

US district judge Rita Lin said in the ruling that citing national security "is not a blank check to punish and retaliate against government critics".

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

A furious heat rises in me, from my gut to the tips of my fingers, and my body clenches at his audacity, at the lies, at the lengths he’s willing to go to punish me.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

To recap: Purcell punishes a plaintiff in voting cases for being too late to court.

From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2026

Immigration attorneys have spoken out against the practice, saying it punishes people who are trying to comply with the rules and turns the justice system into a place of fear.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026

Telegram Chief Executive Pavel Durov said on X that the ban punishes the app’s more than 150 million users in India over the actions of a few.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026

Gattuso admitted the team's shortcomings: "When you have chances and don't take them, football punishes you."

From BBC ● Apr. 1, 2026

At the happy ending of The Tempest, Prospero brings the king back together with his son, and finds Miranda’s true love, and punishes the bad duke, and frees Ariel, and becomes a duke himself again.

From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt

I remember going into those situations, and with no cause for such concern, feeling like I’m going to be punished for expressing myself in that way, because that’s the way the world was set up.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

Flynn was being punished for his “reckless personality and defiant way of life,” Meyers writes in “Inherited Risk: Errol and Sean Flynn in Hollywood and Vietnam.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

While Chelsea have been punished for their breaches, Manchester City are still waiting to discover their fate after being charged with more than 100 breaches of the Premier League's financial rules following a four-year investigation.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

“If that bust comes sooner than many people anticipate, the area of the market that is potentially punished the most would be the neoclouds.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

A great uproar was raised, but he was unsuspected; while Dub, an awkward blunderer who was always getting caught, was punished for Buck’s misdeed.

From "The Call of the Wild" by Jack London

The herky-jerky, unceasing Children of the Hydra’s Teeth are all memorable menace, their details etched deep into the film stock by the punishing midday sun of the Mediterranean.

From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2026

Based in The Hague, the ICC was created in 1998 to cement the role of international law in punishing the worst human rights abuses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

One of the factors that weighed the most heavily in the court’s decision again was that Indiana was punishing speech about something that was legal and protected in other states.

From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2026

Germany has registered a record 15,800 heat-related deaths this summer as Europe struggles through a series of punishing heatwaves, the national public health institute said Thursday.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

Then he brings a punishing bass down on our heads.

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu