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punishing decree n.
decide punishment v.

NOUN

punishing decree

Synonyms

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censure decision edict judgment order penalty punishment ruling term verdict

STRONG

book clock condemnation determination dictum doom fall getup hitch jolt knock pronouncement rap sleep stretch time trick vacation

WEAK

considered opinion sending up the river

Antonyms

STRONGEST

encouragement indecision praise reward

WEAK

accusation charge

VERB

decide punishment

Synonyms

STRONGEST

blame condemn confine convict imprison incarcerate jail penalize punish

STRONG

adjudge adjudicate damn denounce devote doom impound judge ordain proscribe railroad rule settle

WEAK

mete out pass judgment put away put on ice send to prison send up the river take the fall throw the book at

Antonyms

STRONGEST

exonerate free let go liberate pardon praise release reward

STRONG

commend

WEAK

accuse charge

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Sure, it owes a debt to Faulkner—with its high diction and sentences that outpace their punctuation—but it isn’t imitating him.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Conducted this week by correspondent Eric Cortellessa and top editor Sam Jacobs, the 11,000-word interview is in some ways an unremarkable artifact of the president’s usual tics: run-on sentences, bluster, insults, lies.

From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2026

Prisoners released initially were serving sentences of up to 19 months, with the most serious offenders - serving fixed sentences of more than 12 years - leaving in later waves.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

The lengthy sentences for the men, still largely viewed as heroes in the country, sparked outrage in the Balkan nation.

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026

The words, the sentences, waver, bang apart, come back together again until at last he's finished.

From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti