punish
Example Sentences
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It just seems exceptionally harsh to punish this with a penalty as the ball brushing the arm had no material effect on where the ball ended up.
From BBC • May 13, 2026
While quite obviously a joke about the couple’s age disparity, Melania tweeted that this was “hateful and violent rhetoric” for which ABC should punish him.
From Slate • May 2, 2026
If ServiceNow and IBM are any indication, investors will punish the whole sector for anything other than perfection.
From Barron's • Apr. 23, 2026
The CGL geezers don’t even want to imagine Knueppel returning to punish them on the middle-school courts of Wisconsin again.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026
Mom didn’t sign me up for the Free Lunch Program to punish me.
From "Free Lunch" by Rex Ogle
Vocabulary lists containing punish
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