How to Use censure in a Sentence
- The country faces international censure for its alleged involvement in the assassination.
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The censure vote was 35-1 with Eastman as the sole no vote.
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Sean Maguire,
Anchorage Daily News,
22 Feb. 2023
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Rick Klein, back to the fallout from the censure and comments from the RNC.
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ABC News,
6 Feb. 2022
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The party shot down the censure measure on a 41-19 vote.
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Morgan Phillips,
Fox News,
28 Mar. 2021
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Before the vote, Clary took to talk radio to speak against the idea of a censure.
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James Brooks,
Anchorage Daily News,
23 Mar. 2021
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The censure, pushed by allies of Trump, was just over a page long.
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Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports,
Arkansas Online,
9 Feb. 2022
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But some felt that wasn’t enough and pushed for a more formal censure.
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Author: Eric Russell Portland Press Herald,
Anchorage Daily News,
28 Mar. 2021
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There need to be motions of censure at the very least against Hawley and Cruz.
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Benjamin Carter Hett,
Star Tribune,
23 Jan. 2021
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Less than two years elapsed before the next censure — and more attempts are on the way.
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Carl Hulse,
New York Times,
8 Aug. 2023
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Calif. Democrats are are now pushing censure of the president in the House.
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Francine Kiefer,
The Christian Science Monitor,
18 Aug. 2017
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Still, Congress has held two censure votes to oust him, the last one in early May.
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Lucien Chauvin,
The Christian Science Monitor,
4 June 2021
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Those threats were unique and cause for censure, but not the only reckless language in the mix.
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oregonlive.com,
25 June 2019
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The most obvious -- and public -- would be a formal censure vote in the House.
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Chris Cillizza,
CNN,
25 May 2021
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The next day, the Navy took one more swipe at Benson, this time with a public letter of censure.
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Megan Rose,
ProPublica,
20 Nov. 2019
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And again, similar to Greene, at the time, McCarthy called the censure vote an abuse of power.
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Taylor Wilson,
USA TODAY,
18 Jan. 2023
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A spokesman for Ryan declined to comment on the Democrats' censure effort.
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Mike Debonis,
chicagotribune.com,
16 Aug. 2017
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Yet none of this censure is likely to make a jot of difference.
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Washington Post,
13 Nov. 2020
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Now, some think Boebert should face a similar fate and, at the very least, censure.
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Lincoln Mitchell,
CNN,
30 Nov. 2021
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When public comment about the censure was over, Holt and Ross engaged in a heated back-and-forth.
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Jenavieve Hatch,
Sacramento Bee,
15 Feb. 2024
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White sat a few feet from Herzfeld as the rabbi demanded his censure.
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Fenit Nirappil,
Washington Post,
1 May 2018
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Burkons was upset that he was not made aware of the censure prior to the meeting, as were the other six members of council.
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cleveland,
18 Aug. 2020
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That speech — one of the treasures hidden in the play’s lead casket — saves the play, time and again, from history’s total censure.
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Helen Shaw,
Vulture,
15 Feb. 2022
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The final vote caused some Democrats to complain that approving the censure should have taken 31 votes.
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Ray Stern,
USA TODAY,
14 June 2023
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If one eludes the trap of picking wife or mistress, there is still the task of distilling critique from moral censure.
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Dana Snitzky,
Longreads,
12 July 2018
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The House came within two votes of expelling her but opted for censure instead.
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Bryan Schott,
The Salt Lake Tribune,
5 Nov. 2021
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Avoid disapproval and censure by keeping your nose to the grindstone.
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Jeraldine Saunders,
The Mercury News,
16 May 2017
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But there wasn’t nearly enough support among the full state committee for a censure.
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Author: Eric Russell Portland Press Herald,
Anchorage Daily News,
28 Mar. 2021
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In the first instance, city council said in the censure that on Jan. 20, Brown used a city plow to clear a parking lot at a private business outside the city.
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Jolene Almendarez,
The Enquirer,
28 Mar. 2024
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But there was a time when the line between private and public was unyielding and those who crossed it faced censure.
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Nancy McDonell,
WSJ,
13 Nov. 2018
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Short of removal from the bench, a public censure is the strongest sanction the commission can impose on a judge.
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Alex Riggins,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
20 Jan. 2024
- He was censured by the committee for his failure to report the problem.
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That led to an attempt by the state party to censure him.
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David Mark,
Washington Examiner,
14 June 2020
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The worst that can happen to Bailey is that he’d be censured.
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John Wildermuth,
San Francisco Chronicle,
24 May 2018
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He was censured for insulting the speaker of the House.
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Joella Carman,
NBC News,
1 Nov. 2023
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Tlaib is the fourth lawmaker to be censured since 2000.
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Katy Stech Ferek,
WSJ,
9 Nov. 2023
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The committee will vote Feb. 13 on whether to censure him.
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Fox News,
7 Feb. 2021
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The same party refused to censure David Duke, the Klansman.
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Jay Nordlinger,
National Review,
28 Feb. 2020
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Writers and artists would be censured at the whim of government.
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Fox News,
27 Sep. 2018
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Each survived a bid to censure them by the state committee.
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Author: Eric Russell Portland Press Herald,
Anchorage Daily News,
28 Mar. 2021
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The board voted to censure him — one step short of taking away his license.
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Andrew Ford,
The Arizona Republic,
5 Oct. 2022
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The bill introduced by Nancy Pelosi to censure his tweet passed that test.
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The Economist,
18 July 2019
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The board also voted to censure Weiser over the remarks and called on him to resign.
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David Jesse,
Detroit Free Press,
4 June 2021
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Still, the school board president, Greg Holt wanted to censure Ross.
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Jenavieve Hatch,
Sacramento Bee,
15 Feb. 2024
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Council went on to censure Brennan for his remarks to Porter.
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cleveland,
14 June 2021
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The vote to censure McConnell came with two weeks to go until the November election.
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Iris Samuels,
Anchorage Daily News,
26 Oct. 2022
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Since being censured, Zephyr has set up office on the bench just outside the House chamber.
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Tori Otten,
The New Republic,
1 May 2023
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Shame falls on a party that would censure persons of conscience, who seek truth in the face of vitriol.
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Jeff Parrott,
The Salt Lake Tribune,
4 Feb. 2022
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His vote led some Utah Republicans to push to censure him.
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The Salt Lake Tribune,
18 Feb. 2021
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The five members of the board who oppose Weston and Bone have attempted to censure them.
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Tyler O'Neil,
Fox News,
28 Feb. 2022
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Kinzinger and Cheney were censured by their party and voted out of the House Freedom Caucus.
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Tori Otten,
The New Republic,
19 Sep. 2023
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This was not the first time Adams has been censured after saying something deemed to be offensive.
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Chris Lamb,
Fortune,
3 Mar. 2023
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McCarthy was censured just one month after his appearance on the show.
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CBS News,
7 Nov. 2019
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By Tuesday, under pressure to take a stand, the Arizona Senate voted to censure one of its own.
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Washington Post,
8 Mar. 2022
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Legislators have censured one of their own before, the last time being in 1971.
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OregonLive.com,
8 Feb. 2018
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At least one Republican has floated the idea of censuring Schumer over his remarks about the court.
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Dominick Mastrangelo,
Washington Examiner,
9 Mar. 2020
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Within weeks, Cohn was banished and McCarthy was soon censured.
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Vanityfair.com,
VanityFair.com,
28 June 2017
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The board will then decide whether to adopt a resolution censuring her.
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Michael Williams,
Dallas News,
22 Aug. 2023
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Garmback was censured for driving the police cruiser too close to Tamir, forcing Loehmann's hand.
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Staff,
cleveland.com,
31 May 2017
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The show’s creators have given up being funny and opted instead to scold and censure.
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Armond White,
National Review,
21 Apr. 2021
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Those boos will be remembered longer than the effort to censure him over his public breaks with Trump, which failed narrowly.
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Rick Klein, Averi Harper,
ABC News,
3 May 2021
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