as in penalizes
to inflict a penalty on for a fault or crime
the child was punished for breaking dishes on purpose if caught, the thief will be severely punished
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Recent Examples of punishes
This regressive move punishes our own workers and residents to try to plug budget holes.
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Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
Continue reading … WOKE OVERREACH – Parents outraged as school punishes boys over trans locker room confrontation.
—FOXNews.com, 20 Aug. 2025
Growth exposes every weakness, magnifies every misalignment, and punishes a lack of discipline.
—Andrea Hill, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
Continue reading … WOKE OVERREACH – Parents outraged as school punishes boys over trans locker room confrontation.
—FOXNews.com, 20 Aug. 2025
Growth exposes every weakness, magnifies every misalignment, and punishes a lack of discipline.
—Andrea Hill, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for punishes
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If your boss criticizes your work, do not argue or retreat.—
Benjamin Laker,
Forbes.com,
25 Aug. 2025
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What the president is trying to do here is very systemic and systematic, and that is, anyone who stands up to the president, anyone who criticizes the president, anyone who says anything adverse to the president's interests gets the full weight of the federal government brought down on them.—
NBC news,
NBC news,
24 Aug. 2025
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Red Jacob chastises Colum for not healing quickly enough.—
Lincee Ray Published,
EW.com,
15 Aug. 2025
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Hers is prose in which sentences judder and disintegrate and run over each other.—
Book Marks
August 28,
Literary Hub,
28 Aug. 2025
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When faced with a significant initial error of 50%, the new method corrects itself within just 5 seconds, while conventional approaches require over 100 seconds—a 20-fold improvement in recovery speed, according to researchers.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
9 Aug. 2025
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But now researchers from the Biorobotics Laboratory at Seoul National University (SNU) have designed an exosuit that corrects body posture.—
Payal Dhar,
IEEE Spectrum,
10 Sep. 2021
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“Punishes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/punishes. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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