as in condemnation
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Recent Examples of denouncement
To their credit, the Young Republicans organization issued a strong denouncement of the comments, although I was horrified by reading the online responses to it.
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Steven Greenhut, Oc Register, 19 Oct. 2025
The quiet denouncement of Bob’s martyrdom complex points to people of color’s self-sufficiency.
—Robert Daniels, Time, 10 Oct. 2025
Kennedy has long held anti-vaccine beliefs that came to a head with his denouncement of the Covid-19 vaccines.
—Rebecca Cohen, NBC news, 9 Aug. 2025
Steven Greenhut, Oc Register, 19 Oct. 2025
The quiet denouncement of Bob’s martyrdom complex points to people of color’s self-sufficiency.
—Robert Daniels, Time, 10 Oct. 2025
Kennedy has long held anti-vaccine beliefs that came to a head with his denouncement of the Covid-19 vaccines.
—Rebecca Cohen, NBC news, 9 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for denouncement
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Absent due process, there’s no pause to decide whether this person should be condemned or if the reason given for condemnation is legitimate.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
23 Oct. 2025
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And when families lead with compassion instead of condemnation, recovery happens faster and lasts longer.—
Essence,
Essence,
23 Oct. 2025
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Far from being simply a denunciation of marginalization, the song becomes a sincere embrace of vulnerable childhoods, highlighting the pain of those who grow up in poverty, neglect, and, often, are forced into crime as a means of survival.—
Tere Aguilera,
Billboard,
26 Sep. 2025
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Cinema sometimes has to know how to give in to a cause, but another thing entirely is to impoverish cinema by attributing to documentary cinema a mere and strict role of denunciation.—
Rafa Sales Ross,
Variety,
25 Sep. 2025
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In addition to initiating the censure process, the City Council called for a special meeting, with Barbadillo, Lam and Chua in favor.—
Luis Melecio-Zambrano,
Mercury News,
23 Oct. 2025
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In doing so, the palace must weigh distancing itself from Andrew with ensuring the blowback from any further censure does not do even more damage to an institution that requires public buy-in.—
Alexander Smith,
NBC news,
21 Oct. 2025
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It’s been reported that Stuckmann was at least partly inspired by matters from his own life, particularly his sister’s excommunication from the Jehovah’s Witnesses.—
Richard Lawson,
HollywoodReporter,
21 Oct. 2025
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The automatic consequence for a confessor who breaks the seal of confession is excommunication – that is, banned, at least temporarily, from the sacraments of the church.—
Timothy Gabrielli,
The Conversation,
25 Aug. 2025
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Hence, taking them away is an appropriate punishment.—
Helen Lewis,
The Atlantic,
25 Oct. 2025
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But if the thought of freezing cold isolation and bunk pods sounds more like punishment than adventure, Mongolia’s Gobi already offers glimpses of the otherworldly in a far more comfortable setting.—
Rosanna Philpott,
CNN Money,
24 Oct. 2025
Noun
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By the nineteen-nineties, what had formerly been private damnation was becoming public spectacle.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
4 Aug. 2025
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Theology and damnation and the light of the world barely stand a chance against a good four-minute visit to camp.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
4 Aug. 2025
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Links with nonprofit group The recent castigations from progressive Democrats were driven in part by the Opportunity Caucus’s ties to One Main Street.—
Seth Klamann,
Denver Post,
18 Oct. 2025
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Like legions of dreamers before him, McGuirk started on film and TV sets as a PA, an often thankless job where random castigations from members of the cast or crew can be par for the course.—
Katie Kilkenny,
HollywoodReporter,
4 Sep. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Denouncement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/denouncement. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.
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