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Recent Examples of penal Missing fairway’s off the tee is more penal at Bay Hill. Jay Ginsbach, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025 Even in the most incarcerated country in the world, the penal system is, for many people, experienced through mass media representations, whether fictional or documentary. Sarah C. Schaefer, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2025 The corpus of crime-and-punishment imagery that emerged during this era tended to feature sensational events and high-profile lawbreakers rather than emphasizing the uniform anonymity that would increasingly characterize the new penal system and the majority of inmates. Sarah C. Schaefer, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2025 Foucault articulated the judicial and penal shifts from public punishment to private regulation, drawing particular attention to Jeremy Bentham’s panopticon, an architectural concretization of the unseen but ever-present authority of the state. Sarah C. Schaefer, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for penal
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punitive
Adjective
  • As tensions escalated with Pakistan after India accused it of having a supporting hand in a terror attack that killed over two dozen Indians last month, the Indian authorities announced punitive measures, including expelling Pakistani citizens.
    Suhasini Raj, New York Times, 17 May 2025
  • Their exceedingly ambitious goal: to find compromise and a middle ground on one of the most contentious and insoluble issues of recent decades — and to bring some balance to a Trump policy that is almost wholly punitive in its nature and intent.
    Mark Z. Barabak, Mercury News, 15 May 2025

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“Penal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/penal. Accessed 24 May. 2025.

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