chastisement

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Noun
  • Fearing punishment for innie escape, Mark is instead received in the office as a hero.
    James Poniewozik, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2025
  • The proposition won 68% of the vote, and walked back some of the features of Prop. 47, which voters passed a decade earlier to reduce punishments for non-violent crimes.
    Annika Merrilees, Sacramento Bee, 16 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Georgia pecan farmers also suffered from the wrath of Helene, losing nearly a third of the state’s annual harvest.
    Ashley Miznazi, Miami Herald, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Bruno Fernandes volleyed in a stoppage-time winner, saving United’s electrical equipment from Ruben Amorim’s wrath and keeping them in shape to progress to the round of 16 automatically.
    Phil Hay, The Athletic, 24 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Perhaps no other team would be as comfortable effectively shelling out more than $35 million per season for left-handed reliever Tanner Scott, including salary and a 110 percent luxury-tax penalty.
    Ken Rosenthal, The Athletic, 21 Jan. 2025
  • However, Democrats were quick to note that the ex-sister-in-law not only put her name on the affidavit but swore an oath under a penalty of perjury.
    Al Weaver, The Hill, 21 Jan. 2025
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