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But while your brother’s lack of money management appears to have led your mother to make this gesture, it’s also important not to punish his children for the sins of their father.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026

To begin to understand how a “super” El Niño winter could punish the Southern California coast, the historic wooden boardwalk on the Long Beach Peninsula may just offer a glimpse at what’s to come.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent suggested in July that the U.S. might punish Chinese AI companies by putting them on a U.S. blacklist.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

Central Command, which plans and executes military operations in the Middle East, emailed a broad group of analysts and officers, asking for “new creative and unconventional ways to pressure and punish Iran.”

From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2026

He knew right then he could probably stay out there all day and no one would punish him for it.

From "A Monster Calls" by Patrick Ness

“The same rate hike that helps a CD also punishes anyone carrying a credit-card balance.”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026

To recap: Purcell punishes a plaintiff in voting cases for being too late to court.

From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2026

Is the U.S. now a nation that sings like Argentina, rows like Norway and punishes beer kegs like the thirsty Scottish Tartan Army?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

Ahmed: Of course, like this idea of searching for your identity in a world that either commodifies it or punishes it, that’s something I relate to.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026

It was a typical summer Miami afternoon where the humidity punishes any and all.

From "The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora" by Pablo Cartaya

Silver had to follow guidelines spelled out in the NBA collective bargaining agreement and could not unilaterally decide whether the Clippers would be punished and how severely.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

Flynn was being punished for his “reckless personality and defiant way of life,” Meyers writes in “Inherited Risk: Errol and Sean Flynn in Hollywood and Vietnam.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

As Iraola alluded to after, perhaps one of his players should have had the know how to commit a foul in that situation but Liverpool were punished again.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

The tech companies “are being punished today for seeking more financing,” Ozkardeskaya says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

Tazviona’s mother led her off to be punished privately, and Aunt Chipo took Nhamo off to an empty storage hut.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

It’s about rewarding some mothers and punishing others.

From Slate ● Sep. 14, 2026

Doctors seem ready to watch even in weeks when they have had punishing days or nights in A&E.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

Amid an oppressive stretch of extreme heat and Florida-esque humidity that has been punishing much of California, consider, for a moment, the Ice Age.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026

The herky-jerky, unceasing Children of the Hydra’s Teeth are all memorable menace, their details etched deep into the film stock by the punishing midday sun of the Mediterranean.

From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2026

But what did McGeary really, really feel about punishing me?

From "Black Brother, Black Brother" by Jewell Parker Rhodes