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Recent Examples of moralize
But Ireland retains its faith in the power of certain forms of moralizing censorship to manage or disguise political failures: The new hate-speech laws look like a desperate attempt to preempt debate about Ireland’s demographic transformation.
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Daniel Foster, National Review, 30 Nov. 2023
And in its rule-making, the EU should simplify and streamline, rather than moralize and nitpick.
—Peter Vanham, Fortune Europe, 12 Dec. 2023
The repeal of those old laws followed so swiftly by the imposition of other ones regulating speech suggests Ireland retains its faith in the power of moralizing censorship to manage or disguise political failures.
—The Editors, National Review, 29 Nov. 2023
But Coppola, never one to fall back on easy, moralizing judgments — nor to disentangle sadness from joy, its natural companion — doesn’t deny or condemn that mirage’s seductive power.
—Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2023
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Daniel Foster, National Review, 30 Nov. 2023
And in its rule-making, the EU should simplify and streamline, rather than moralize and nitpick.
—Peter Vanham, Fortune Europe, 12 Dec. 2023
The repeal of those old laws followed so swiftly by the imposition of other ones regulating speech suggests Ireland retains its faith in the power of moralizing censorship to manage or disguise political failures.
—The Editors, National Review, 29 Nov. 2023
But Coppola, never one to fall back on easy, moralizing judgments — nor to disentangle sadness from joy, its natural companion — doesn’t deny or condemn that mirage’s seductive power.
—Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for moralize
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Erdogan, who has set a record in suppressing the freedoms and rights of his citizens, as well as his country's opposition, dares to preach to others.—
Amira El-Fekki,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 June 2025
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Udoka has preached discipline, accountability and respect, demanding his players adhere to a team concept, and has seen a unified response almost immediately.—
Kelly Iko,
New York Times,
19 June 2025
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Nonetheless, the missing performers were lectured by Richard Grenell, Trump’s new president of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts—a man with, inevitably, no experience in any of them—that performers must perform for people of all political parties.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
13 June 2025
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At the Cooper Union in New York in November, Sumner again lectured on Adams’s theory, while a group of Republicans and radical abolitionists sat behind his podium on the stage.—
Zaakir Tameez
June 11,
Literary Hub,
11 June 2025
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