as in to criticize
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Iran’s government warned that any division at home over the deal weakens its negotiating position, and those criticizing negotiators are taking aim at a national decision.—
Julia Frankel,
Fortune,
14 June 2026 -
Iran’s government warned that any division at home over the deal weakens its negotiating position, and that those criticizing negotiators are taking aim at a national decision.—
Julia Frankel,
Los Angeles Times,
14 June 2026
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Predictably, Khomeini fulminated about Carter’s visit.—
Daniel Immerwahr,
New Yorker,
4 Aug. 2025
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As for fighting the Trump pressure campaign, even politicians as ambitious as Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker are mostly left to file lawsuits — and fulminate.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
5 May 2025
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And now, with escalating talk of expanding military action to include regime change in Caracas, Americans are rightly concerned, with Republicans now chiding Trump for ignoring kitchen-table issues at home in favor of chasing overseas victories.—
Douglas Schoen,
Oc Register,
5 Dec. 2025
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When Marissa is first interviewed by the police, she’s lightly chided by her otherwise respectful husband for not checking a parent’s phone number against the school registry.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
6 Nov. 2025
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In 2022, Manhattan Federal Judge Jed Rakoff, who presided over both trials, decided The Times was not liable for defamation while jurors were deliberating, that the error amounted to unfortunate editorializing but not libel.—
Molly Crane-Newman,
New York Daily News,
22 Apr. 2025
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As a new, inexpensive Chevrolet appeared in 1927 and The Dearborn Independent was sued for libeling a number of Jewish businessmen, Ford threw in the towel and apologized.—
George Pendle,
airmail.news,
15 Mar. 2025
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Still, Coleman said some fans have chastised her for sharing photos with Bleu, who married his wife, Sasha Clements, in 2016.—
Virginia Chamlee,
PEOPLE,
3 June 2026
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Some have been more vocal than others, publicly chastising him for his opacity ahead of what is expected to be a competitive general election race.—
Connor Greene,
Time,
29 May 2026
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Now an author and senior national security reporter at MSNOW, Rohde said Najibullah had, on top of everything else, slandered him as a spy during his abduction.—
Molly Crane-Newman,
New York Daily News,
10 June 2026
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Were emperors Nero and Caligula really crazed tyrants, or were they slandered by historians hoping to delegitimize their rule?—
Tim Brinkhof,
Big Think,
11 May 2026
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The pope has fiercely criticized joint US-Israeli strikes on Iran and rebuked world leaders for invoking religious language to rationalize war and voiced opposition to the administration’s immigration crackdown.—
Christopher Lamb,
CNN Money,
10 June 2026
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Last year, however, Warsh voiced support for lower interest rates, rebuking the Fed's concern about inflation risk posed by a flurry of new tariffs.—
Max Zahn,
ABC News,
10 June 2026
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Disgusting — yet he was not reprimanded by fellow commissioners.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
10 June 2026
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Behind closed doors, ProPublica revealed, the majority-Republican state Supreme Court quashed the commission’s recommendations that two Republican judges who’d admitted to committing egregious conduct violations be publicly reprimanded.—
Doug Bock Clark,
ProPublica,
5 June 2026
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“Lash (out).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lash%20%28out%29. Accessed 18 Jun. 2026.
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