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penalize

[peen-l-ahyz, pen-] / ˈpin lˌaɪz, ˈpɛn- /


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As another, he said the new rules could penalize immigrant families for accessing basic, preventative healthcare that actually helps control the broader public cost of illness to localities and states.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

Meta said the California plaintiffs are attempting to penalize the company for industry-wide challenges like age verification.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

Only Charles Schwab won’t penalize traders for selling on the first day, but Schwab clients have to be pretty big players to get any shares.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 11, 2026

Fidelity Brokerage Services—one of the five brokers allocated retail shares of the IPO—will penalize investors who sell their SpaceX stock within 15 calendar days of the stock’s debut, according to the firm’s website External link.

From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026

“I own the original patent for making patent leather, ” Fletcher said in a patent lie. penalize.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

When it assesses the financial health of insurers, the credit ratings company penalizes the assets compared with holdings of corporate bonds or money-market funds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

Lockwood hears from parents who wonder if saving for college penalizes them when it comes to financial aid.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 28, 2026

One of the bills, AB1836, prohibits and penalizes the making and distribution of a deceased person’s digital replica without permission from their estate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2024

According to the New York Times, the company “routinely refuses to accept doctors’ notes, penalizes workers who need to take care of a sick family member and otherwise punishes employees for lawful absences.”

From Salon ● Mar. 27, 2024

It is less attractive because it penalizes both the short term and the long-term financial players.

From After the Rain : how the West lost the East by Samuel Vaknin

Even in cases where regulators found that companies endangered workers or committed multiple violations, few were penalized for all their citations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

People who sell to lower- and moderate-income consumers are getting penalized by their customers in some cases for raising prices, but they’re still willing to try, he said.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

The NBA penalized the Los Angeles Clippers for violating salary-cap rules by facilitating outside payments to star player Kawhi Leonard.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

The judge reserved the question of what she called “guardrails for witnesses”—that is, whether Mr. Carroll’s alleged victims will be admonished or perhaps even penalized if they testify that he, rather than “she,” raped them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

“What about my record? The other men are getting all the fame and medals and publicity. Why should I be penalized just because I’m doing such a good job as mess officer?”

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

Notably, the measures announced stopped short of directly penalizing China, the main buyer of Iranian oil, a move that would have risked stoking tensions between the world’s two biggest economies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

“Meta still has the most call optionality, where the market is penalizing them for the spend and not giving them credit for potential revenue from the spend,” he wrote.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026

The Justice Department has its own process for investigating and penalizing its lawyers accused of violating ethics, but that is not a substitute for state bar investigations and punishments.

From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2026

The suit claims that about 100 schools are left without these additional resources, penalizing them with larger class sizes and fewer opportunities to meet with teachers, among other drawbacks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2026

By penalizing the different ones whom they sensed as superiors, they increased the value of their own inferiorities.

From Gargoyles by Ben Hecht




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