criticize
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The influencer said she considered herself very conservative and voted for Trump, but in recent months she has started to criticize some of the administration’s decisions.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
“It’s fine to criticize the work, but don’t cross the line into personal attacks.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
Ms. Watson does criticize the AI models now available for offering digestible but sometimes off-the-mark answers to our various small-beer queries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
Cubans who once feared government reprisals now criticize the country's leaders and have taken to banging pots and pans in regular nighttime protests.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
It looks out over the lagoons and the Wooded Island, now a wild and tangled place that perhaps would make Olmsted smile—though no doubt he would find features to criticize.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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He criticizes DHS’s “conclusory or dismissive” responses to the 22,000 public comments it received about the proposal.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
What’s absolutely fascinating, and totally on-brand, is how Marsh contradicts, criticizes and updates himself between the various books.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
He then criticizes the $50 billion price tag on the federal scholarship tax credit for education.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026
Ramos, 55, who denies all the allegations, said that it is an escalation of a years-long attempt to silence his work that often criticizes Mexican forces who work closely with US allies on the border.
From Barron's ● May 14, 2026
Then my daughter criticizes me as if I were not there.
From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan
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The report was heavily criticized for failing to assign blame or identify specific evacuation failures, but officials have said that wasn’t the goal of the McChrystal Group review.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
Despite last year’s ceremony boasting a four-year viewership high, the general audience doesn’t seem to care who’s announced as the host — unless it’s someone they’ve openly criticized.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
It wasn’t the first time Modi had criticized the war, but the remark was notably direct and forceful.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
Late yesterday, the company’s CEO Adam Aron criticized on the social-media platform X Robinhood’s stock tokens, or tokenized contracts that follow the price of stocks like AMC.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Others criticized her lack of insect classification and the seemingly haphazard organization of her books.
From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman
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The WSJ’s Jon Emont reports that the Group of 20 issued a statement this week implicitly criticizing Beijing for its overreliance on exports for growth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
Owens was criticizing the Black Lives Matter movement and highlighting the efforts of her organization, the Blexit Foundation.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
Now Stanley Druckenmiller is criticizing the Treasury secretary.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
Mayor Karen Bass and even some of his own prosecutors criticizing the filing as “insane” and a deterrent for police looking to expose corruption and misconduct within their ranks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
For some reason this seemed to annoy Hermione as well; she didn’t say anything, but she kept looking darkly at the broom as though it too had been criticizing her cat.
From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling
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