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[sen-sher] / ˈsɛn ʃər /




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I don’t think anyone can, or should, draw a straight medical line from a Communist Party censure to a cancer diagnosis.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 14, 2026

Girls and women who have their mother's names do not face the same censure - and often when they marry may opt to take their husband's first name as their surname.

From BBC Jul. 11, 2026

While Pastef's majority in the National Assembly can censure the government, in the event of a deadlock the president can resort to "exceptional powers" to govern by decree for three months, noted Diallo.

From Barron's Jun. 2, 2026

Noem was the public face of that disapproval, strutting forward with arrogance in the face of public censure, a veritable clown show of ineptitude.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 6, 2026

In fact, the issue was never raised at the convention, and the censure was never reversed.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

These censures are deemed necessary, notwithstanding the fact that he continues to deny the allegations against him.

From BBC Oct. 30, 2025

It still demands collusion, censures dissent, confuses the exertion of power with the protest against it.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 10, 2023

Government officials say the Gray report, which is being closely watched for the extent to which it censures Johnson and his Conservative government, will be published as soon as possible, though unlikely before next week.

From Seattle Times May 19, 2022

“It’s like we have one every day,” Bowman said of the censures, spooning himself some asopao de camarones, a shrimp and rice stew, at a D.C.

From Washington Post Jan. 28, 2022

He was at last condemned to abjure de levi; received the absolution and censures ad cautelam; and was banished from the capital.

From The History of the Inquisition of Spain from the Time of its Establishment to the Reign of Ferdinand VII. by Llorente, Juan Antonio

It could also ask for him to be formally censured at a future council meeting.

From BBC Apr. 27, 2026

The senator made the case for his record and censured Mr. Paxton for unethical behavior.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 27, 2026

It’s infrequent that a judge is publicly or privately censured.

From Slate Dec. 11, 2025

They subsequently won back their seats in special elections, while a third legislator, state Rep. Gloria Johnson, was censured but not expelled.

From Salon Oct. 14, 2025

So far from being decorated, he had been censured for showing cowardice in the battle.

From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell

“If it takes collective action…it does so at the price of censuring any minority who do not agree with the view adopted.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 2, 2026

The county would end up filing a lawsuit in August against Viet America Society and censuring Do in September.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 22, 2024

But make no mistake about its significance: Parliament censuring a man who was prime minister as recently as September in the strongest possible terms.

From BBC Jun. 19, 2023

For decades after, Congress reconvened only intermittently to take pressing post-election actions, like censuring Senator Joseph McCarthy in 1954 and impeaching President Bill Clinton in 1998, or to resolve particular legislative debates.

From New York Times Dec. 16, 2022

The Russians were censuring his behavior in front of his friends and the world press.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady




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