as in to punish
to inflict a penalty on for a fault or crime
the player was penalized for unsportsmanlike conduct
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Recent Examples of penalize
Because of this, welfare recipients can be penalized for sharing a household.
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Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Orange County Register, 4 Oct. 2024
The country still has a tax structure that penalizes married couples if both individuals work full time.
—Rachel M. Cohen, Vox, 30 Oct. 2024
Noncitizens are prohibited from voting in federal elections by a 1996 law that penalizes offenders with heavy fines, up to one year in prison, and deportation, which Morales-Doyle says further disincentives the crime.
—Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 28 Oct. 2024
The central provision of this new model was a Rapid Response Labor Mechanism, or RRM, which enabled the United States to penalize private companies operating in Mexico that were denying their workers fundamental labor rights, such as freedom of association or collective bargaining.
—Miriam Sapiro, Foreign Affairs, 23 Oct. 2024
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Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Orange County Register, 4 Oct. 2024
The country still has a tax structure that penalizes married couples if both individuals work full time.
—Rachel M. Cohen, Vox, 30 Oct. 2024
Noncitizens are prohibited from voting in federal elections by a 1996 law that penalizes offenders with heavy fines, up to one year in prison, and deportation, which Morales-Doyle says further disincentives the crime.
—Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 28 Oct. 2024
The central provision of this new model was a Rapid Response Labor Mechanism, or RRM, which enabled the United States to penalize private companies operating in Mexico that were denying their workers fundamental labor rights, such as freedom of association or collective bargaining.
—Miriam Sapiro, Foreign Affairs, 23 Oct. 2024
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“Penalize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/penalize. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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