rebuke
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The NFL’s decision is a firm rebuke of a player who admitted to violating one of the most sensitive rules in all of sports—and then spent months trying to escape punishment.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 23, 2026
He called upon people to love their enemies, not rebuke them or disparage their existence.
From Salon • Jun. 5, 2026
Rama himself has published what appears to be a public rebuke to former Greek Prime Minister Aleksis Tsipras.
From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026
Luckily for Germany, it will escape public rebuke because of a clause allowing for exemptions related to defence spending, which the country has ramped up in the wake of Russia's Ukraine invasion.
From Barron's • Jun. 3, 2026
Like Farmer, the priest believed in liberation theology as a “powerful rebuke to the hiding of poverty,” and he worked diligently to bring public awareness to the plight of rural Haitians.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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