censure
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I don’t think anyone can, or should, draw a straight medical line from a Communist Party censure to a cancer diagnosis.
From The Wall Street Journal β Jul. 14, 2026
Girls and women who have their mother's names do not face the same censure - and often when they marry may opt to take their husband's first name as their surname.
From BBC β Jul. 11, 2026
"If the deputies decide to table a motion of censure or no confidence, they are capable of doing so," he added.
From Barron's β May 24, 2026
Noem was the public face of that disapproval, strutting forward with arrogance in the face of public censure, a veritable clown show of ineptitude.
From Los Angeles Times β Mar. 6, 2026
Her tone couldn’t have held more wonder and censure if Zooey’s pores had been exuding crude oil.
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
"These censures are deemed necessary, notwithstanding the fact that he continues to deny the allegations against him," the statement continued.
From BBC β Oct. 30, 2025
It still demands collusion, censures dissent, confuses the exertion of power with the protest against it.
From Los Angeles Times β Nov. 10, 2023
“It’s like we have one every day,” Bowman said of the censures, spooning himself some asopao de camarones, a shrimp and rice stew, at a D.C.
From Washington Post β Jan. 28, 2022
The article censures an organization whose young clients only achieved 65% of their goals instead of the planned 80%.
From Seattle Times β Jul. 23, 2021
The council made an address to the king, requesting him to forbid the inquisitors the use of censures, and to deliver his people from the oppression under which they suffered.
From The History of the Inquisition of Spain from the Time of its Establishment to the Reign of Ferdinand VII. by Juan Antonio Llorente
It could also ask for him to be formally censured at a future council meeting.
From BBC β Apr. 27, 2026
The senator made the case for his record and censured Mr. Paxton for unethical behavior.
From The Wall Street Journal β Feb. 27, 2026
It’s infrequent that a judge is publicly or privately censured.
From Slate β Dec. 11, 2025
McCarthyism is remembered so well because it was finally extinguished by the mainstream: Congress censured McCarthy, and Eisenhower criticized him.
From Salon β Oct. 14, 2025
For this he was censured in the Senate by Fabius Maximus, who called him the corruptor of the Roman army.
From "The Prince" by NiccolΓ² Machiavelli
Critics are censuring Mr. Warsh for turning his back on those goals.
From The Wall Street Journal β Aug. 16, 2026
In the USC Academic Senate’s vote, 21 members favored censuring the president and provost, seven opposed, and six abstained.
From Los Angeles Times β May 8, 2024
But make no mistake about its significance: Parliament censuring a man who was prime minister as recently as September in the strongest possible terms.
From BBC β Jun. 19, 2023
One of the groups, the Association of Art Museum Directors, also told the museum’s director, Jonathan Canning, that if the university proceeded with the sale, it would consider censuring and sanctioning the museum.
From New York Times β Mar. 10, 2023
“I would wish not to be hasty in censuring any one; but I always speak what I think.”
From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
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