chasten

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

But his assault seemed to chasten Israel’s media and chattering classes.

From New York Times ● Apr. 10, 2023

Videos of those horrible patients should also chasten conservatives, because they don’t come from nowhere; they aren’t made up.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 6, 2022

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

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

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

He knows, though the world does not, that his father fills a convict's grave, and this remembrance chastens his pride, without humiliating him with the consciousness of disgrace.

From Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author by Caroline Lee Hentz

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

A dozen years later, they were at least somewhat chastened.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

There is also a point to prove for Rohl and his chastened squad.

From BBC ● May 9, 2026

For David McWilliams, an Irish economist, podcaster and chastened former central banker, monetary economics is a branch of humane letters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025

I tramped two miles to the next farm and, chastened by my unsuccessful first effort, tried a different approach.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

Northampton's success came at the end of a chastening opening weekend of the top-tier tournament for Prem clubs, with Gloucester drawing against champions Bordeaux-Begles but six other sides losing.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

They followed that up with a chastening 4-1 defeat away to world champions Spain but were still level on points with Thomas Tuchel's Three Lions before Saturday's humiliating loss in Rijeka.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

Jaissle's side crumbled and conceded three goals in a chastening 14-minute period in the first half.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

Their return - the longest gap between games by a side in Premier League history - and first assignment was chastening and a reminder that survival will be no easy task.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 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