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These often measure text similarity or overlap, but they don’t heavily penalize the tiny errors that should fail in a health setting.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026

These penalize an adviser for poor performance to the same extent they reward good performance.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

In the reports, OpenAI said that it had improved its alignment grading system to better penalize bad behavior.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

Lenders legally cannot penalize you for paying off your loan early, however.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026

On January 15, 1872, they staged a nighttime march to voice their anger over laws they felt were designed to penalize a single class, namely the poor.

From "The Great Fire" by Jim Murphy

When it assesses the financial health of insurers, the credit ratings company penalizes the assets compared with holdings of corporate bonds or money-market funds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

Lockwood hears from parents who wonder if saving for college penalizes them when it comes to financial aid.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 28, 2026

It’s similar to California’s Advanced Clean Cars program, which doesn’t require consumers to buy electric vehicles, but penalizes manufacturers if they don’t phase out sales of gasoline and diesel cars and light trucks by 2035.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 2025

According to the New York Times, the company “routinely refuses to accept doctors’ notes, penalizes workers who need to take care of a sick family member and otherwise punishes employees for lawful absences.”

From Salon ● Mar. 27, 2024

The professional spirit detects its own violations and penalizes them.

From My Life and Work by Henry Ford

People who sell to lower- and moderate-income consumers are getting penalized by their customers in some cases for raising prices, but they’re still willing to try, he said.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

Even in cases where regulators found that companies endangered workers or committed multiple violations, few were penalized for all their citations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

During a second-round match between two of tennis’ most combustible personalities, Ilie Nastase and John McEnroe, chair umpire Frank Hammond penalized and eventually defaulted Nastase for his behavior.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026

An Australian court penalized that company for false advertising.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

My family had not asked for or even wanted to be involved in the struggle, but my involvement penalized them.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

Notably, the measures announced stopped short of directly penalizing China, the main buyer of Iranian oil, a move that would have risked stoking tensions between the world’s two biggest economies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

“Meta still has the most call optionality, where the market is penalizing them for the spend and not giving them credit for potential revenue from the spend,” he wrote.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026

A few states, such as Texas, bar insurers from penalizing customers for zero-payment claims.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026

The Justice Department has its own process for investigating and penalizing its lawyers accused of violating ethics, but that is not a substitute for state bar investigations and punishments.

From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2026

For example, there is neither good sense nor honesty in penalizing a corporation because some of its officials have done wrong.

From Morals in Trade and Commerce by Frank B. Anderson