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So when two drivers traded punches after a recent race, Nascar didn’t penalize either.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

Lenders legally cannot penalize you for paying off your loan early, however.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026

Any talk of changing the rules, salary cap or otherwise, to put reins on this kind of success would propagate underperformance and penalize this fascinating culture of constant improvement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 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

On January 15, 1872, they staged a nighttime march to voice their anger over laws they felt were designed to penalize a single class, namely the poor.

From "The Great Fire" by Jim Murphy

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

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 28, 2026

It also penalizes companies whose business is more blue-collar or in services.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

This penalizes players who enter the transfer portal and leave.

From Salon ● Dec. 30, 2024

The program penalizes refineries that make high carbon fuel, such as diesel and gasoline, and benefits makers of lower carbon fuels such as renewable diesel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2024

This method of rating light-sources penalizes those radiating considerable energy which does not produce the sensation of light or which at best is of wave-lengths that are inefficient in this respect.

From Artificial Light Its Influence upon Civilization by Matthew Luckiesh

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 same month, California Attorney General Rob Bonta penalized a private equity-backed dental business for violating the recently enacted statute.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

On Wednesday, the NBA dropped an anvil on Clipperland as it penalized the team for what it said were repeated salary-cap violations by engineering additional income opportunities for soon-to-be former star Kawhi Leonard.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

Ballmer also could be penalized and Leonard’s contract could be voided.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026

“Team Kyle is not being penalized for Team Charles’s blunder,” he said.

From "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library" by Chris Grabenstein

“Broadcom’s recent relative underperformance reduced the hurdle, but the quarter still arrived in a market that is penalizing anything short of a step-function surprise.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 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

We are in need of laws penalizing wasteful methods of mining and prohibiting uneconomical methods of combustion.

From Problems in American Democracy by Thames Ross Williamson