Example Sentences
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Kwatra’s supervisors condoned his distribution of gift cards and other perks to clients to entice them to continue shopping at Saks, she said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025
The country's Securities Regulatory Commission found that PwC, as the auditor, had "covered up and even condoned" financial fraud at Evergrande.
From BBC • Nov. 20, 2025
Hundreds of Lithuanians thundered the patriotic anthem of national independence, which had been banned by the 1940 nonaggression pact between Hitler and Stalin, a deal that, in effect, condoned the Soviet seizure of Lithuania.
From New York Times • Apr. 10, 2024
Nicki Minaj told her legion of fans, the Barbz, that she doesn’t want them threatening anyone online or in person: ‘I don’t & never have condoned that.’
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 10, 2023
His preoccupation with improving the cyclotron condoned sloppy and inattentive experimental work.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
