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View definitions for admonition

admonition

noun as in caution

noun as in scolding

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The fact is, women understand the admonition to “vote, and if that doesn’t work out, we will just start terrorizing people” as both familiar and the very antithesis of freedom.

From Slate

The night’s other headliners are Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, who will speak about Harris’ family focus, and former First Lady Michelle Obama, who may reprise her admonition of years past — for Democrats to “go high” in counter to her view that Republicans “go low.”

These included mashups of some of Harris’ more nonsensical though hilarious efforts to explain her fascination with Venn diagrams, as well as her oft-cited mantra of imagining “what can be, unburdened by what has been,” and her admonition “You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?”

From Slate

The time and place for the meeting was written on the dry-erase board in the Galaxy’s locker room, alongside the admonition “no wives or girlfriends,” which Donovan edited to include “no boyfriends.”

It did not take long for Swiatek to assert herself on a sunny afternoon in Court Philippe Chatrier, where several spectators waved red and white flags of her native Poland — even drawing an admonition from chair umpire Aurélie Tourte in the second set.

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