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censure

[sen-sher] / ˈsɛn ʃər /




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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 Jul. 14, 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 May 24, 2026

Discrimination, harassment and sexual violence against women remain huge challenges, but feminism has become such a polarised term here it is often levelled as a grave charge, inviting witch-hunts online and censure offline.

From BBC Apr. 18, 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 Mar. 6, 2026

The censure of her family was like a hard shell under which she found a certain freedom.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen

"These censures are deemed necessary, notwithstanding the fact that he continues to deny the allegations against him," the statement continued.

From BBC Oct. 30, 2025

It still demands collusion, censures dissent, confuses the exertion of power with the protest against it.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 10, 2023

He said he generally also does not favor censures.

From Seattle Times Feb. 4, 2022

“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 Jan. 28, 2022

He was liberal in his censures on the measure of drawing the bills in question on Spain.

From The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution Volume 7. by Various

It could also ask for him to be formally censured at a future council meeting.

From BBC Apr. 27, 2026

The senator made the case for his record and censured Mr. Paxton for unethical behavior.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 27, 2026

It’s infrequent that a judge is publicly or privately censured.

From Slate 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 Oct. 14, 2025

With high-stakes testing, a teacher whose students test poorly can be censured or passed over for a raise or promotion.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt

“If it takes collective action…it does so at the price of censuring any minority who do not agree with the view adopted.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 2, 2026

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 Jun. 19, 2023

Yet years later, as head of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, he was emphatic in asserting Rome’s authority, censuring theologians and advocating greater freedom to use the Latin Mass.

From New York Times Dec. 31, 2022

"The fact is, that our democracy is precious," Labor Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said during the debate, speaking in favour of censuring Morrison.

From Reuters Nov. 30, 2022

“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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