penalize
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Federal and state agencies also must be empowered with the resources to penalize bait-and-switch tactics swiftly.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 13, 2026
When states tried in the 1970s and 1980s to penalize outlets that identified victims using names that had already appeared in court documents or police reports, the court said those punishments violated the First Amendment.
From Salon • Dec. 17, 2025
A tax-law change in 2027 will penalize owners of public sports teams, which could pressure the company to consider a sale.
From Barron's • Dec. 12, 2025
Such an education won’t discourage or penalize students who dissent from a professor’s perspective or from views dominant on the campus.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 30, 2025
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
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New York Times Co. v. Sullivan (1964), List 3
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