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adjective

as in condemned

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verb

past tense of convict

as in sentenced

to find or pronounce guilty an accused person is presumed innocent until convicted in a court of law

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Also sentenced to death in the same case was Assad’s maternal cousin Atef Najib, who was convicted of overseeing a crackdown in the southern province of Daraa that led to the uprising and later the civil war. — CNN Money, 11 Aug. 2026 Baz was convicted of murder and sentenced to 141 years in prison. — Lisa Rozner, CBS News, 11 Aug. 2026 If convicted, the now-63-year-old will likely never walk out of prison a free man. — Sasha Pezenik, ABC News, 10 Aug. 2026 Rudy Guede was separately convicted of Kercher's murder in 2008 and sentenced to 16 years in prison. — Usa Today, USA Today, 10 Aug. 2026 Federal jurors convicted the five leaders on material support for terrorism, tax, and money laundering charges in 2008, with the elder Abu Baker receiving a 65-year sentence as the foundation’s co-founder. — Hudson Crozier, The Washington Examiner, 9 Aug. 2026 If convicted, Karekin and the other clerics could face up to two years in prison. — Arkansas Online, 9 Aug. 2026 He was fired from Dior and ultimately convicted of a hate crime in a French court. — Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 3 Aug. 2026 Last week, Iran publicly hanged two men convicted of killing four police officers during nationwide anti-government protests in January. — Elena Becatoros, Chicago Tribune, 3 Aug. 2026

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Jim Trusty, the lawyer for Rozier, excoriated the league after a hearing Wednesday that served as a status update on Rozier’s case, as well as the other three defendants who remain indicted alongside him.

— Mike Vorkunov, New York Times, 11 June 2026
The conservative-leaning New York Post has also reported Wahhaj was listed as an un-indicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

— Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 23 Oct. 2025

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Krishnan rightly points out that actively suppressing language ought to be condemned, but that suppression and obsolescence are wholly different.

— The New Yorker, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026
On Saturday, Oman condemned attacks on the vessels that were attempting to pass through the Strait of Hormuz, saying in a statement that such attacks could affect its negotiations with Iran over the waterway’s management.

— Mithil Aggarwal, NBC news, 9 Aug. 2026

Definition of condemned

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Militants convicted of intentional killings and those sentenced to life terms before 2005 are excluded from the bill’s provisions.

— ABC News, ABC News, 10 Aug. 2026
The group sought to prove its point again Sunday by partnering with Nida Abu Baker, whose father was sentenced in 2009 for coleading a Texas charity that bankrolled terrorists.

— Hudson Crozier, The Washington Examiner, 9 Aug. 2026

Definition of sentenced

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Restrictions have extended outside the classroom, with some teachers being fired or punished for criticizing conservative activist Charlie Kirk after his assassination.

— Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 7 Aug. 2026
This is in part because of the psychological need to believe in a just world, where good people are rewarded and bad people are punished.

— Jen Cole Wright, The Conversation, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of punished

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The Green Bay Packers held their annual Family Night Scrimmage Friday night — a practice inside of Lambeau Field where fans were charged $10 to watch the 2-hour, 15 minute session.

— Rob Reischel, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2026
In 2020, police charged two Los Angeles-area men and a woman with participating in Tran’s killing.

— Faith Karimi, CNN Money, 8 Aug. 2026

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