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Rebuking Ricardel was a clear assertion of power.

From The Guardian • Nov. 16, 2018

Rebuking her errant child, a formidable mother wags her index finger so vigorously that the momentum wafts her hand over her head.

From Washington Post • Aug. 22, 2017

And finally, there was the virtuosic roller-coaster ride through Guido Cagnacci's "Martha Rebuking Mary for her Vanity," chosen perhaps as a nod to Pereira's participation in the L.A.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 14, 2014

Rebuking by implication their immediate predecessors, the present justices insisted that it was Congress' job to legislate, not the court's.

From Time Magazine Archive

Rebuking Bismarck's unfair attitude towards Rumania in a question concerning German investors, Prince Carol writes to his father in 1875: 'I have to put Rumania's interests above those of Germany.

From The Balkans A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey by Forbes, Nevill