as in to criticize
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Public health experts also criticized the president for making unfounded claims about highly politicized health issues.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
9 Feb. 2026 -
Trump has criticized the selection of Bad Bunny, and rock band Green Day, to perform at the Super Bowl.—
Jenna Prestininzi,
Freep.com,
8 Feb. 2026
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O’Sullivan berated an on-site staff member while using more than a dozen expletives during a 47-second video of the incident.—
Edgar Thompson,
The Orlando Sentinel,
6 Feb. 2026
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In 2008, towards the beginning of his presidency, Barack Obama frequently berated oil speculators for artificially inflating prices.—
Tristan Bove,
Fortune,
5 Feb. 2026
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In a comparable case in the United States in 2023, a federal judge imposed $5,000 fines on two lawyers and a law firm after ChatGPT was blamed for their submission of fictitious legal research in an aviation injury claim.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
27 Jan. 2026
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That leaves them out of pocket, at risk of reputational damage and in danger of losing customers who blame them, rather than the cloud services provider, for the problem.—
David Prosser,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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Young kids paddled near the shallow edges and bigger kids jumped off the cliffs above the swimming hole, causing the adults to gasp and scold.—
Hazlitt,
Hazlitt,
4 Feb. 2026
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During the trip, the priest who was showing them around was scolded.—
McKinley Franklin,
PEOPLE,
30 Jan. 2026
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Over the past two weeks, three federal judges in Orlando have ordered the immediate release of immigrants from the jail and excoriated prosecutors for arguing that a law addressing people stopped at the border allows ICE to indefinitely lock up people already living in the country.—
Cristóbal Reyes,
The Orlando Sentinel,
3 Feb. 2026
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In a letter to the state senator, obtained by The Star, the groups excoriated Hall’s nomination on four counts.—
Kacen Bayless,
Kansas City Star,
29 Jan. 2026
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Based on his 2020 short film, Meeks draws from his personal ties to Ohio to upbraid our preconceptions about the cyclical nature of addiction and recovery.—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
21 Jan. 2026
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At a hearing two days after the government dropped its charges against Baraka, the judge upbraided Stephen Demanovich, a federal prosecutor who had been assigned the case.—
Jonathan Blitzer,
New Yorker,
19 Jan. 2026
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Most repellent of all is a slow-burn sequence in which the Jimmys, having stumbled on a small community of survivors, proceed to string them up in a barn and gradually, meticulously flay them alive.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
16 Jan. 2026
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Koch was a real-life Nazi war criminal, played here by Krieps, whose sick specialties include flaying the skin off of Jewish people and making objects out of it like lampshades.—
William Earl,
Variety,
4 Oct. 2025
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Cuban officials have said existing US economic sanctions are largely to blame for the country’s ailing energy sector, although critics also fault a lack of government investment in infrastructure.—
Bianna Golodryga,
CNN Money,
5 Feb. 2026
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Hilton blasted Bianco for skipping the debate and also faulted him for taking a knee with protesters during the 2020 racial unrest.—
Barnini Chakraborty,
The Washington Examiner,
4 Feb. 2026
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“Crucify.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crucify. Accessed 10 Feb. 2026.
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