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condemning

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verb

present participle of condemn
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Recent Examples of condemning
Verb
The statement sparked outrage with GOP lawmakers, who slammed Allstate for not explicitly condemning terrorism. Jackson Walker, Baltimore Sun, 3 Jan. 2025 Back at the office, Helly receives news of her resignation request - her outie denied it, condemning her to a lifetime of work. Dan Perry, Newsweek, 2 Jan. 2025 The day after the fire, the Inter Ocean published a story condemning lapses in safety inspections. Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Dec. 2024 Sunshine Rides, the taxi company where Egan was employed, has suspended him and pledged to assist law enforcement, condemning the incident as unacceptable and harmful. David Faris, Newsweek, 29 Dec. 2024 In English, by the late 16th century, decry took on the meaning of publicly condemning or criticizing something. Erik Kain, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024 According to Rickards, Keynes wasn’t condemning gold itself but critiquing the rigid gold exchange standard of the 1920s. Bob Haber, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024 The government also issued a statement condemning the killing this year of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh. Paul Tilsley, Fox News, 26 Dec. 2024 Officials also found a handwritten manifesto condemning the health care industry, as NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny previously told Fox News. Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 23 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for condemning
Adjective
  • There’s no legal argument to be made against this turn away from fact-checking and towards a more freewheeling, more disinformation-laden, more confusing, more hateful and less illuminating approach.
    New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 13 Jan. 2025
  • With Zuckerberg’s decision to rescind policies barring hateful speech, he’s made clear that distinction is worth the possibility of political clout come Inauguration Day.
    Makena Kelly, WIRED, 9 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • The governor questioned the project’s future but stopped short of denouncing the possible use of eminent domain to advance the MPRP.
    Gary Collins, Baltimore Sun, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Among those denouncing the deportations was Gandy Thomas, Haiti’s permanent representative of the Organization of American states, an international body that promotes democracy and defends human rights.
    Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 15 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • While most have become accustomed and perhaps even oblivious to McGregor’s online rants, openly criticizing a business partner is a little dicey.
    Brian Mazique, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Shiney-Ajay said Harris should have spent additional time criticizing lawmakers—like Manchin and Congressional Republicans—who limited the administration's climate goals, using it as a chance to emphasize her intent to seek greater climate victories in the future.
    Alex J. Rouhandeh, Newsweek, 23 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Tamil Nadu’s leaders have long been openly contemptuous of Hindu nationalism, and their governing philosophy represents a powerful alternative to Modi’s worldview.
    Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 2 Jan. 2025
  • The Supreme Court could potentially blow up this trend The largest threat to the trend of fewer death sentences and executions is the Supreme Court’s Republican supermajority, which is often contemptuous of precedents handed down by earlier justices who Republican legal elites view as too liberal.
    Ian Millhiser, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
Verb
  • But punishing that behavior means bringing the hammer down on Vietnam, hardly a step that would win Washington strategic support in Hanoi, where a new leadership dominated by public security and military officials actually sees eye to eye with China in some areas.
    Evan A. Feigenbaum, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2025
  • In an interview with The Athletic last month, Diggins described the feeling of finishing one of the most punishing endurance tests in all of sports.
    Zack Pierce, The Athletic, 5 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • What price female solidarity and empowerment, after all, if the weapon of actualization is an abusive system, one that invariably draws Santosh into its clubby, scornful, vigilante mindset?
    Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Yet feeling out of place has, ironically, brought Escola even closer to their Mary Todd Lincoln, whose fear that a scornful world might keep her offstage gives the show an unexpected pathos.
    Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2024

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