criticism
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Still, collisions involving Waymo vehicles have garnered public attention and criticism, including when a Waymo struck and killed a beloved neighborhood cat in San Francisco last year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
One project that comes in for particular criticism is the costly free school meals programme, Prabowo's signature project which he vowed Friday to pursue "but with improvements and efficiency."
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
The shooting also led to a surge in public criticism about the role of health-insurance companies in limiting or denying medical care.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
The surveillance-technology company has faced criticism over the risks of police abuse of its AI-enabled camera system.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Stung by the criticism from her father and husband, Elizabeth Cady Stanton stopped accepting invitations to public events and once again focused her attention on her family.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
When reporters confronted Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. with these facts, he responded that such criticisms were “invalid” and that the cyclosporiasis outbreak was “under control.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Whatever the case, Moreno appears to have determined that the questions and criticisms had become too loud to ignore.
From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2026
Those criticisms weren’t only about style or his reluctance to comment on the economic and policy outlook.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026
Yet for all his criticisms of Hayek, Skidelsky affirms that Hayek and Keynes were at one in their desire to preserve liberal civilization from the radicals of the left and right in their time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
He and Prokofiev were both mercifully spared the treatment accorded writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn, whose criticisms of Soviet authority in his books and public statements landed him in a Siberian prison camp.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
Vocabulary lists containing criticism
Power Suffix: -ism
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