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That includes making do with less as they reestablish their place in society, rethink their careers and reprove their worth.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2021

Scalia’ll reprove ya With some jurisprudential effluvia, Then, with scowling harrumph And a baleful galumph, He’ll trudge homeward to Antediluvia.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 9, 2015

“You have to reprove yourself in order to establish your credibility.”

From New York Times ● Jan. 14, 2015

So you’ve got to really prove and reprove yourself over and over and over again just to get an opportunity.

From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2012

Amos answers that he is sent by the Lord to reprove the people of Israel, and he continues to intone his lamentations.

From The Dramatization of Bible Stories An experiment in the religious education of children by Elizabeth Erwin Miller Lobingier

“I could do without becoming known as the man who has a hugger for a son,” he reproves when Cal tries to embrace him.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026

Jack’s shoulders are slumped forward, his arms crossed, while John’s maternal aunt Annie reproves him with an extended finger.

From New York Times ● Jan. 16, 2018

Samples: >A boatman who reproves the hero for offering him a high fee in the face of danger.

From Time Magazine Archive

He reproves us for faults which would not be faults if he could talk to his neighbors in Vermont, to his fellow writers, his fellow men.

From Time Magazine Archive

Again, the Spirit reproves the world of sin.

From Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost by John Nicholas Lenker

Mr. Meadows was also reproved by the House Ethics Committee in 2018 for mishandling sexual harassment allegations against a top aide.

From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2020

Both lawmakers were reproved by the Ethics Committee.”

From Fox News ● Nov. 16, 2018

“We must all take responsibility for using facts correctly and for verifying anything we spread,” Stefan Lofven, the Swedish prime minister, reproved Trump at a news conference.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 21, 2017

He was immediately reproved by scores of his readers, as well as by a commentary in The Economist, “The World Is His Parking Spot,” that applied basic social cost-benefit analysis.

From New York Times ● Jul. 4, 2011

“I’m surprised at you for spreading rumors, William,” she reproved him.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare

Today, children are more likely to have to go to a chain grocery store for candy, and odds are they’d have to be driven there, and escorted through the purchase by a reproving adult.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

He’s become less circumspect about reproving the manners of high-born courtiers around him—and despite their pride in their own chivalry, they are indeed a boorish lot.

From Slate ● Mar. 12, 2020

When Donnersmarck reached for a Snickers, his mother shot him a reproving look.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 14, 2019

But she does put it to coolly subversive use. At social gatherings she turns her grin into a shield, a mask of contentment that can clench, without warning, into a reproving stare.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 2017

“Jo does use such slang words!” observed Amy, with a reproving look at the long figure stretched on the rug.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott