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Their architect, Minoru Yamasaki, died of cancer long before 9/11, but had castigated himself during his lifetime for the failure and eventual demolition of the Pruitt-Igoe housing complex he had designed in St. Louis.

From New York Times • Sep. 18, 2022

He said he would pray for those who had castigated Muslims, “because that’s what Muslims do.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 16, 2015

Analysts and legislators had castigated the agency as doing little to curb Wall Street’s excesses and to monitor questionable activities in the years before the financial crisis.

From New York Times • Jul. 17, 2010

Nebraskans still recalled indignantly that Ted Sorensen had castigated his native state as an "educationally depressed area" that was "old, outmoded, a place to come from or a place to die."

From Time Magazine Archive