as in to criticize
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PinkNews journalist Amelia Hansford criticizes the movie for portraying the titular character’s gender transition as a moral decision to absolve her of her past sins.—
Conor Murray,
Forbes,
22 Jan. 2025 -
Trump has been harshly criticized for pardoning Jan. 6 defendants who assaulted police officers but said Tuesday that planned pardons of D.C. police Terence Sutton and Andrew Zabavsky indicate his true stance in support of law enforcement.—
Haisten Willis,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
22 Jan. 2025
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At the time, even Carter's fellow Democrats fulminated against his incompetence.—
George Monastiriakos,
Newsweek,
31 Dec. 2024
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When Reagan fulminated against the Soviet Union, his aides, fearing nuclear war, challenged him.—
Daniel Immerwahr,
The New Yorker,
9 Sep. 2024
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Trump critics chided the church for sending the choir, which had performed at five previous presidential inaugurations: Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. and George W. Bush.—
Erin Alberty,
Axios,
14 Jan. 2025
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Jason then acknowledged that his wife, Kylie, had chided him for not realizing that the pants were symbolic.—
Virginia Chamlee,
People.com,
17 Oct. 2024
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Wright got so big on social media even Piers Morgan invited her to libel Jay Z and Beyonce on his platform.—
Rob Marriott,
VIBE.com,
30 Dec. 2024
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Though he was not named in the ad, Mr. Sullivan asserted he had been personally libeled by The Times and four Black ministers who were signed to the ad.—
David W. Dunlap,
New York Times,
22 Dec. 2024
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Not that the public wasn’t angry at them — her film depicts angry residents of Malibu, for example, chastising firefighters for not doing enough.—
Jocelyn Noveck,
Los Angeles Times,
15 Jan. 2025
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The waggish jeer that subverts the Reich Chancellery, designed by Adolf Hitler's chief architect, Albert Speer, must have sent the woman who chastises children for flatulent folly into a tizzy.—
Natasha Gural,
Forbes,
12 Jan. 2025
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In a startling turn of events, the former New York City mayor walked away with all of his belongings in exchange for an undisclosed sum and a promise to stop slandering them.—
Molly Crane Newman,
Sun Sentinel,
17 Jan. 2025
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The reading of history damps down the impulse to slander the trend and tenor of the times, instills a sense of humor, lessens our fear of what might happen tomorrow.—
Harper’s Magazine,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Oct. 2024
Verb
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Citing the years spent reviewing evidence and adjudicating hundreds of cases involving defendants charged with violent and nonviolent criminal offenses, the judges rebuked efforts to downplay the events of Jan. 6.—
Melissa Quinn,
CBS News,
22 Jan. 2025
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The Board of Education, however, rebuked that proposal.—
Richard Requena,
Chicago Tribune,
16 Jan. 2025
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Instead of a letter of concern, the board officially reprimanded Simmons.—
David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
15 Jan. 2025
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Handler told Parade in a Jan. 3 cover story that the Grace and Frankie star reprimanded her for poor behavior at the event.—
Carly Tagen-Dye,
People.com,
3 Jan. 2025
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