chasten
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With the board that tried to chasten him swapped out, Altman has a lot of leeway to make occasional principled stands while making zillions of dollars, or not.
From Slate • Nov. 27, 2023
People are reminded during a crisis like this that a local newspaper is a central thread that stitches neighbors together with birthday photos that make grandma happy and crime reports that chasten the scofflaw.
From The Guardian • Apr. 6, 2020
Do constant pressures to resign, to chasten the president, to speak up in criticism constitute mental reservations?
From Washington Post • Sep. 6, 2018
Image: ABC There are moments in season 2 where Cooper bounces back into form, but they’re outnumbered by events that exhaust and chasten him, visibly transforming him into a more solemn, internal man.
From The Verge • May 31, 2017
In school Kantorek used to chasten Mittelstaedt with exactly the same expression—“Inadequate, Mittelstaedt, quite inadequate.”
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
Vocabulary lists containing chasten
The Fault in Our Stars
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