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The Anti-Defamation League, which had commended Twitch for suspending Beyer, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment on Huang’s decision to accept the Beyer donation.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

In November, they dismissed him even though Sandy Alderson, the team’s president, had commended Scott for the job he had done with the team.

From New York Times • Jan. 6, 2022

Regal Kentucky would play Iona at Madison Square Garden the next night, and a Kentucky writer relayed to an Iona employee that Kentucky Coach Rick Pitino had commended the Gaels as “scrappy.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 14, 2020

Fayette County School Board officials had commended Garner for the essay after the appearance.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 7, 2018

And then on that day when the cousin had commended the country wife and laughed at the city wife, that had passed which could not be forgiven.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck