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

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026

One investigator told Banyuetan that authorities lack legal grounds to probe or penalize people who merely publish officials’ résumés on social media.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

Any talk of changing the rules, salary cap or otherwise, to put reins on this kind of success would propagate underperformance and penalize this fascinating culture of constant improvement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026

Most brokers penalize investors who quickly sell SpaceX IPO shares, with penalties ranging from temporary to permanent bans on future IPOs.

From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026

It also forbade the use of federal funds for anything that discriminated against anyone, and authorized the federal government to enforce the integration of schools and penalize schools that didn’t comply.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson

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

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 28, 2026

“It penalizes the very thing that we want, which is we want more employment.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025

Existing law already penalizes solicitation of a minor under 16 as a misdemeanor or felony on the first offense and as a felony on subsequent offenses.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2025

This penalizes players who enter the transfer portal and leave.

From Salon ● Dec. 30, 2024

The system may perhaps prove commercially remunerative, but it penalizes the producers of the better growths in order to provide a livelihood for the growers of inferior and unmarketable kinds and protracts an abnormal situation.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various

Ballmer also could be penalized and Leonard’s contract could be voided.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026

The judge reserved the question of what she called “guardrails for witnesses”—that is, whether Mr. Carroll’s alleged victims will be admonished or perhaps even penalized if they testify that he, rather than “she,” raped them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

CoinEx became the largest foreign counterparty to Iran’s Nobitex by 2024, replacing Binance, which the U.S. penalized.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

On campus, students can get penalized for using it, depending on the school and the professor.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026

Those who protested could be penalized under the 1917 Espionage Act, which made it a crime to interfere with the draft or encourage “disloyal” acts.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman

“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

In response, the VA’s new rule asserts a blanket policy of considering the condition only as it presents under treatment, basically penalizing veterans like me for doing the work of staying alive.

From Slate ● Feb. 19, 2026

The suit claims that about 100 schools are left without these additional resources, penalizing them with larger class sizes and fewer opportunities to meet with teachers, among other drawbacks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2026

For three, that could have other First Amendment implications, such as violating religious autonomy “by penalizing the Catholic Church for how it organizes itself.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2025

There are probably a good many who believe in penalizing a runner for clumsy and stupid interference as well as for deliberate intent to foul.”

From The Jester of St. Timothy's by Arthur Stanwood Pier