as in condemnation
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for denouncement
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Thailand deported more than 100 of them to China in 2015, drawing condemnation from the international community.—
Michael Sullivan,
NPR,
27 Feb. 2025 -
The posts quickly drew condemnation from many users on Truth Social and Instagram, even from people who identified themselves as Republicans.—
Ben Goggin,
NBC News,
26 Feb. 2025
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Their desire for freedom was at the same time a denunciation of serfdom.—
Michael Bruening,
The Conversation,
25 Feb. 2025
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The denunciation of companies buying back stock has even worked itself into tax policy, as there is now a 1% excise tax applied to the value of stock repurchased by a corporation.—
Richard Mansouri,
Forbes,
14 Jan. 2025
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Brown’s refusal to show New Zealand officials the text of the China deal ahead of his trip prompted censure from Wellington this month.—
Charlotte Graham-McLay,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Feb. 2025
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Those who stick around and suffer a formal censure from their governing academic body usually — but not automatically — face removal from office by a higher power (typically the university’s board of trustees, or the state’s governor).—
Shaun Richman,
New York Daily News,
18 Feb. 2025
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They are set to be bailed out in two days, and the colony’s bishop demands that the victims forgive them—or else face excommunication and be denied a spot in heaven.—
Ruth Madievsky,
The Atlantic,
20 Nov. 2024
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But there are 10 narrow circumstances in which excommunication is not automatic — and Pope Francis in 2016 granted Catholic priests a right once limited to bishops: to absolve those who have had abortions.—
Jonathan M. Pitts,
Baltimore Sun,
13 Oct. 2024
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The State Supreme Court ruled last year that death by firing squad was a legal form of punishment even though it is largely viewed as an archaic form of justice that, according to polls, many Americans believe to be inhumane.—
Eduardo Medina,
New York Times,
21 Feb. 2025
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In fact, most international relations literature on cooperation finds a key role for enforcement mechanisms, assurance, and threats of punishment.—
Tom Rogers,
Newsweek,
21 Feb. 2025
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However benign or malicious — whatever its life or death, possible eternal salvation or never-ending damnation — this spirit seizes your attention from the get-go because everything in this twisty, technically virtuosic, surprisingly moving chiller is shot from its point of view.—
Manohla Dargis,
New York Times,
23 Jan. 2025
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There are many natural landmarks on our planet named after a biblical destination of eternal damnation.—
Popular Science Team,
Popular Science,
25 Dec. 2024
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“Denouncement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/denouncement. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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