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Recent Examples of condemnation Last year, a Detroit judge's decision to handcuff and threaten a teen girl with incarceration for falling asleep during a field trip to his courtroom led to widespread condemnation. Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2025 Global condemnation over the lack of transparency prompted Maduro to ask the country’s high court — also filled with allies of his United Socialist Party of Venezuela — to audit the election results. Regina Garcia Cano, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2025 Its military campaign on Syrian soil has drawn increasing international condemnation. Natasha Frost, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2025 But the show is billed as a salute to bad gifts, rather than a condemnation of them. Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for condemnation 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for condemnation
Noun
  • Because sure enough, Glenn calls the going-out crew into the master for a reprimand.
    Emma Soren, Vulture, 14 Jan. 2025
  • However, for that policy violation, he was issued only a letter of reprimand.
    Josh Wood, The Courier-Journal, 21 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • But as part of the censure, the board barred Morris from taking part in deliberations and votes regarding the Hagekhalil investigation.
    Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Still, her presence does give Sorkin the opportunity to leap back and forth between the writing of the address and the aftermath, exploring the president’s struggle to regain his composure after a congressional censure in the process.
    Matthew Jackson, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • Harsh punishment for traumatized children took its toll.
    Jazzmin Jiwa, TIME, 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
  • So far, the baptism ceremonies taking place in Kosovo have stirred no violent opposition, though there have been some angry denunciations online.
    Fatjona Mejdini, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2025
  • The Muslim-majority states of Southeast Asia, in particular, see double standards at work in Washington’s denunciation of Russia, pointing to U.S.-initiated or -supported wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Gaza, and Lebanon, among other conflicts.
    Bilahari Kausikan, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Signing the best starter remaining on the free-agent market would allay those concerns and quell some of the criticism surrounding Atlanta's quiet offseason.
    Kristen Waggoner, Newsweek, 22 Jan. 2025
  • That has been in the face of harsh, even deeply personal criticism.
    Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, The Athletic, 21 Jan. 2025

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“Condemnation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/condemnation. Accessed 28 Jan. 2025.

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