chasten
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With the board that tried to chasten him swapped out, Altman has a lot of leeway to make occasional principled stands while making zillions of dollars, or not.
From Slate ● Nov. 27, 2023
People are reminded during a crisis like this that a local newspaper is a central thread that stitches neighbors together with birthday photos that make grandma happy and crime reports that chasten the scofflaw.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 6, 2020
Image: ABC There are moments in season 2 where Cooper bounces back into form, but they’re outnumbered by events that exhaust and chasten him, visibly transforming him into a more solemn, internal man.
From The Verge ● May 31, 2017
But if you thought that would chasten people pushing the story and lead them to drop it, think again.
From New York Times ● May 24, 2017
In school Kantorek used to chasten Mittelstaedt with exactly the same expression—“Inadequate, Mittelstaedt, quite inadequate.”
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
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Her humility, even in recollection, chastens him with “the true absurdity of almost all the ambitions which coursed through my younger self when I wanted to be a famous writer.”
From Washington Post ● Nov. 23, 2022
Eventually, however, Lear’s tragic ordeal chastens him and leads him to self-awareness and repentance.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 14, 2022
As the climate crisis chastens and public awareness grows, environmental concerns have finally made their way to the video game industry.
From The Verge ● Dec. 5, 2019
A tender 1960s portrait of the aged social activist Dorothy Day chastens and deepens the smirky irreverence of the Chicago Seven’s yippie posturing.
From New York Times ● Jul. 5, 2012
Forget! oh! no; the sadness of the past does not shadow my happy present, but it chastens it.
From Under the Mendips A Tale by Emma Marshall
A nominee laser-focused on the general election might have been chastened, hastening to court the 47.6 percent of Democrats who’d backed his opponent.
From Slate ● Nov. 2, 2026
It was historically more conservative to begin with, but the profit warning in 2023 “really hit investor confidence and chastened Siemens Energy,” said Sean McLoughlin, equity analyst at HSBC.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
The last we last see of Hansen, muttering lines from his script as the police process the Conradt crime scene, suggests a man distubred, perhaps even chastened, by what he has witnessed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
There is also a point to prove for Rohl and his chastened squad.
From BBC ● May 9, 2026
A chastened man, an older man, he remembered: All summer, to begin with, he felt elated.
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
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And Barrow insists that while their most recent encounter is "buried" and "in the past", he is using the chastening loss to help ensure England's readiness for this competition.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
There have also been a spate of injuries to key players, but Jaissle has only lost one of his opening seven matches in all competitions, a chastening 4-1 defeat at Leeds United.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
Jaissle's side crumbled and conceded three goals in a chastening 14-minute period in the first half.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
It could have been even worse had the normally reliable Igor Thiago not struck the post with a penalty, but that was no consolation for Spurs or De Zerbi on what was a chastening day.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
Isaac was laughing, but Patrick raised a chastening finger and said, “Augustus, please. Let’s return to you and your struggles. You said you fear oblivion?”
From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green
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