punish
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Appeared in the April 1, 2026, print edition as 'China Keeps Trying to Punish Tokyo'.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026
Local media, citing unnamed sources, connected the arrested men to an online platform known as "Punish Mee" that was allegedly used to provide financial aid to the eight wanted overseas activists.
From Reuters • Jul. 5, 2023
Perhaps most important is restorative justice, a concept described at length in Lois Forer's 1994 book, "A Rage to Punish":
From Salon • Dec. 26, 2022
Virginia Eubanks, an associate professor of political science at SUNY–Albany, digs into exactly this question in her new book, Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor.
From Slate • Mar. 29, 2018
"Punish them? But you wouldn't punish them for a peaceful march."
From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat
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